Live-in careTyne and WearShiney Row
25 live-in carers are based within 10 miles of Shiney Row. Typical rate £1,040 a week, our fee included. Care homes nearby charge a median £1,207.
62 live-in carers based within 25 miles of Shiney Row
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Live-in carer profiles near Shiney Row
£1,040 a week
typical week from carers within 25 miles of Shiney Row, our fee included
£149
a day
Rates, reviews and distances are from carers' own profiles. A couple pays about £1,350 a week for one carer.
Who is nearest
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.
62 live-in carers are based within 25 miles of Shiney Row, and any of them could come to Shiney Row
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See live-in carers for Shiney RowWhat it costs
A typical live-in week is £1,040 from carers within 25 miles of Shiney Row, with our fee included, and the middle half of advertised rates run from £980 to £1,120. Here is where that sits against the care homes within 10 miles.
Care home fees are the median weekly fee published by homes within 10 miles of Shiney Row, before extras. Homes that do not publish a fee are not counted, and fees vary widely between homes.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 Tyne and WearShiney Row in numbers
25 live-in carers live within 10 miles of Shiney Row town centre, and 62 within 25 miles. The nearest is based about 3 miles away. Their advertised rates put a typical week at £1,040, with our fee included, and the middle half of them between £980 and £1,120. Within 10 miles there are 276 care homes and 164 home care agencies. The 9 care homes nearby that publish their fees charge a median of £1,207 a week for a residential room and £1,447 with nursing. Shiney Row is in the Sunderland council area, where 7,342 people are aged 85 or over: 2.6% of residents, close to the UK average of 2.6% (ONS, mid-2025).
A live-in carer moves into the home in Shiney Row 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 Shiney Row, 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 Shiney Row 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
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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Lee-Ann
Account manager for families in Shiney Row
Someone to talk to first
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 Shiney Row might suit, though the choice is always yours.
Help paying
Shiney Row is in the Sunderland council area. Ask your council for a care needs assessment and, where relevant, a financial assessment. Help with care costs depends on eligible needs, finances and the agreed care plan. Sunderland 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, Attendance Allowance and NHS Continuing Healthcare can help too, and so can pensions, savings and the value in a home.
Around Shiney Row
Live-in carers travel to their placements, so the figures on this page apply to the towns around Shiney Row as much as to Shiney Row itself. These are the nearest places with their own live-in page, and the area guides behind this one.
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Questions
A typical week is £1,040 from carers within 25 miles of Shiney Row, with our fee included: about £149 a day. The middle half of advertised rates fall between £980 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 Tyne and Wear has an estimator.
Yes. 25 live-in carers on PrimeCarers are based within 10 miles of Shiney Row, and 62 within 25 miles; the nearest lives about 3 miles away. Live-in carers move in for the placement, so carers from further away can come too. A profile does not confirm availability: check dates with each carer.
For one person they are close. A typical live-in week is £1,040, and the 9 care homes within 10 miles of Shiney Row that publish their fees charge a median of £1,207 a week for residential care, or £1,447 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.
Shiney Row is in the Sunderland council area. Ask your council for a care needs assessment and, where relevant, a financial assessment. Help with care costs depends on eligible needs, finances and the agreed care plan. Sunderland 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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