Live-in careScottish BordersSelkirk
Live-in care in Selkirk
Compare live-in carers for Selkirk and read client reviews. Typical advertised rate in our area sample: £1,064 a week, including our fee.
11 priced profiles sampled within about two hours of the Scottish Borders
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Live-in carer profiles near Selkirk
£1,064 a week
typical week around the Scottish Borders, our fee included
£152
a day
Neil B.Based in Edinburgh · 29 miles from Selkirk · 7 years experience£170a day
Adaobi A.Based in Edinburgh · 29 miles from Selkirk · 5 years experience£180a day
Precious K.Based in Edinburgh · 33 miles from Selkirk · 23 years experience5.0(2 reviews)£165a day
Rates, reviews and distances are from carers' own profiles. A couple pays about £1,350 a week for one carer.
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The live-in carers based closest to Selkirk
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What live-in care costs in Selkirk, against the alternatives
A typical live-in week is £1,064 around the Scottish Borders, with our fee included, and the middle half of advertised rates run from £1,050 to £1,120. Here is where that sits against a care home.
- Live-in care in the Scottish Borderstypical advertised week£1,064
- A couple, one live-in carerabout a fifth more than for one£1,350
- Care home, England averageone resident, before extras£1,160
- Nursing home, England averageone resident, before extras£1,410
- A couple in a care hometwo fees£2,320
Care home figures are averages for England; too few homes in the Scottish Borders publish a fee for a local median. Fees vary widely between homes. At home you keep paying the household bills and the carer's food, so add those before you compare.
For a couple the gap is wide: one live-in carer for both of you is about £1,350 a week, and a care home charges two fees.
Past about 35 hours a week of visits, live-in care costs about the same and somebody is there all day.
The full figures, an estimator and what changes the priceLevel of need, couples, nights, days the family covers, and what to agree before the carer arrives.
The cost of live-in care in the Scottish BordersSelkirk in numbers
Live-in care in Selkirk: the local picture
The nearest is based about 29 miles away. Selkirk is in the Scottish Borders council area, where 4,092 people are aged 85 or over: 3.5% of residents, more than the UK average of 2.6% (ONS, mid-2025).
A live-in carer moves into the home in Selkirk and is there day and night: personal care, meals, medicines prompted at the right times, company, and someone in the house overnight. On PrimeCarers you choose the carer yourself from the profiles of those who can reach Selkirk, agree the rate on their profile, and we set up the contract and the weekly payments. Families arrange it after an operation or a hospital stay, for dementia, for a couple, or when visits are no longer enough. How live-in care works goes through it step by step.
From carers' own profiles, October 2026. Distances are straight-line, from the centre of Selkirk to where each carer says they live. Counts are the live-in carers with a photo and a live-in rate that our area searches return, at most 100 per area, so busy areas have more. Rates include our fee and are advertised day rates multiplied by seven; typical means the median. Availability for your dates needs confirming with each carer.
How to arrange it
From this page to a live-in carer in Selkirk
Four steps, and the first two cost nothing. You choose the carer; we handle the checks, the contract and the payments.
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Talk to two or three
This weekMessage them with a short description of a typical day, then decide on a video call or a visit. - 3
Agree the rate and a start date
A few daysThe rate on the profile is the price. The contract, weekly invoicing and payment are set up on PrimeCarers. - 4
The carer moves in
Week 1Most live-in carers work stints of two to six weeks, so agree early who covers their breaks.
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Lee-Ann
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Lee-Ann helps families in Selkirk arrange live-in care
Most families start with a call: what your relative needs, what it would cost, whether a live-in carer is the right answer or hourly visits would do, and what to ask a carer when you speak to them. Lee-Ann has those conversations every day and can tell you which of the carers in Selkirk might suit, though the choice is always yours.
Help paying
Help with the cost of live-in care in Selkirk
Selkirk is in the Scottish Borders council area. In Scotland, council-arranged personal care is free if your care needs assessment says you need it, regardless of age, income or savings. Other help, such as shopping or housework, can be charged for. Agree the assessment and support plan with the council before arranging privately funded care. Scottish Borders direct payments and council funding covers the authority at the town centre; check your home postcode if you live near a boundary.
Depending on needs, Pension Age Disability Payment and Personal and nursing care in Scotland can help too, and so can pensions, savings and the value in a home.
Around Selkirk
Live-in care around Selkirk
Live-in carers travel to their placements, so the figures on this page apply to the towns around Selkirk as much as to Selkirk itself. These are the nearest places with their own live-in page, and the area guides behind this one.
Live-in care in the towns around Selkirk
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- Live-in care in Galashiels5 miles
- Live-in care in Melrose6 miles
- Live-in care in Newtown St Boswells7 miles
- Live-in care in Earlston9 miles
- Live-in care in Hawick9 miles
- Live-in care in Innerleithen10 miles
- Live-in care in Jedburgh12 miles
- Live-in care in Lauder12 miles
More about live-in care in the Scottish Borders
Local guides explain costs, funding and choosing a carer
Questions
Questions families in Selkirk ask about live-in care
A typical week is £1,064 around the Scottish Borders, with our fee included: about £152 a day. The middle half of advertised rates fall between £1,050 and £1,120 a week. Complex care, such as advanced dementia or hoisting, starts from about £1,260. The cost of live-in care in the Scottish Borders has an estimator.
Live-in carers move in for the placement, so the search shows everyone who could come to Selkirk, not only those nearby. A profile does not confirm availability: check dates and travel with each carer.
For one person they are close. A typical live-in week is £1,064, and the average care home in England charges £1,160 a week, or £1,410 with nursing. At home you also pay the household bills and the carer's food. For a couple, one live-in carer costs about £1,350 a week for both, while a care home charges two fees. The care home comparison has a calculator.
Selkirk is in the Scottish Borders council area. In Scotland, council-arranged personal care is free if your care needs assessment says you need it, regardless of age, income or savings. Other help, such as shopping or housework, can be charged for. Agree the assessment and support plan with the council before arranging privately funded care. Scottish Borders direct payments and council funding explains the local route. Check which council covers your home postcode if you live near a boundary.
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