Live-in careStirlingScotland
Live-in care in Scotland
Compare live-in carers for Scotland and read client reviews. Typical advertised rate in our area sample: £1,048 a week, including our fee.
30 priced profiles sampled within about an hour of Stirling
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Live-in carer profiles near Scotland
£1,048 a week
typical week around Stirling, our fee included
£150
a day
Briget Y.Based in Falkirk · 37 miles from Scotland · 22 years experience£140a day
Eve C.Based in Cumbernauld · 37 miles from Scotland · 2 years experience5.0(1 review)£160a day
Adedoyin O.Based in Cumbernauld · 38 miles from Scotland · 2 years experience£145a day
Rates, reviews and distances are from carers' own profiles. A couple pays about £1,350 a week for one carer.
Who is nearest
The live-in carers based closest to Scotland
Closest first, with the rate each has set. Every one has passed our checks: an accepted criminal-record check (Enhanced DBS issued within the last 2 years, DBS Update Service, Scottish PVG or Access NI), identity, right to work, and an online interview.
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See live-in carers for ScotlandWhat families say
What clients say about carers near Scotland
Reviews of the reviewed carers based nearest Scotland, nearest first. They describe previous clients’ experiences, not necessarily care delivered in Scotland. Each links to the carer’s profile.
“Great compassionate person very efficient polite and respectable to my support and needs great motivator and encouraging me to do things with respect and dignity”
Janet W., 2025
About Eve C.Live-in carer based in Cumbernauld“She listened diligently to what my mother wanted/was saying and always managed to come up with a solution that seemed to placate her.”
Joanna B., 2025
About Magreth K.Live-in carer based in Glasgow“My mother benefited from a level of assistance, support, care & love it would be difficult to find elsewhere & for which I am extremely grateful.”
Jeremy K., 2020
About Precious K.Live-in carer based in Edinburgh · 2 reviewsReviews come from families who booked through PrimeCarers, or are references carers have added from past clients. We check reviews before they appear and never edit them, but we do not verify references. Read more client reviews.
What it costs
What live-in care costs in Scotland, against the alternatives
A typical live-in week is £1,048 around Stirling, with our fee included, and the middle half of advertised rates run from £989 to £1,105. Here is where that sits against a care home.
- Live-in care in Stirlingtypical advertised week£1,048
- 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 Stirling 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 StirlingScotland in numbers
Live-in care in Scotland: the local picture
The nearest is based about 37 miles away. Scotland is in the Stirling council area, where 2,560 people are aged 85 or over: 2.7% of residents, close to the UK average of 2.6% (ONS, mid-2025).
A live-in carer moves into the home in Scotland 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 Scotland, 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 Scotland 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 Scotland
Four steps, and the first two cost nothing. You choose the carer; we handle the checks, the contract and the payments.
- 1
Search live-in carers for Scotland
FreeThe results show carers offering live-in care who can reach Scotland, with their rate, experience and reviews. - 2
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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Charlotte
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Charlotte helps families in Scotland 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. Charlotte has those conversations every day and can tell you which of the carers in Scotland might suit, though the choice is always yours.
Help paying
Help with the cost of live-in care in Scotland
Scotland is in the Stirling 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. Stirling 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 Scotland
Live-in care around Scotland
Live-in carers travel to their placements, so the figures on this page apply to the towns around Scotland as much as to Scotland 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 Scotland
Confirm the care postcode and dates with each carer
- Live-in care in Comrie (Perthshire and Kinross)11 miles
- Live-in care in Callander17 miles
- Live-in care in Doune21 miles
- Live-in care in Dunblane23 miles
- Live-in care in Bridge of Allan25 miles
- Live-in care in Bannockburn30 miles
More about live-in care in Stirling
Local guides explain costs, funding and choosing a carer
Questions
Questions families in Scotland ask about live-in care
A typical week is £1,048 around Stirling, with our fee included: about £150 a day. The middle half of advertised rates fall between £989 and £1,105 a week. Complex care, such as advanced dementia or hoisting, starts from about £1,260. The cost of live-in care in Stirling has an estimator.
Live-in carers move in for the placement, so the search shows everyone who could come to Scotland, 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 £1,048, 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.
Scotland is in the Stirling 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. Stirling 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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