Websites for care homes
Web design for care homes: £249.99 to build, then £49.99 a month, no minimum term. An adult child is reading this at midnight, guilty and frightened. Write for them.
Care home websites are read by families in crisis, usually after a fall, a hospital admission or a diagnosis that has made the current arrangement impossible. The person doing the research is almost always an adult child, and they feel guilty about the whole thing.
They need practical information quickly, and they need to feel that the home understands what this decision costs them emotionally. Corporate language about person-centred care achieves neither.
What your customers want answered
- Do you have a vacancy, and what type of care do you provide
- What does it cost a week, and what is not included
- What is your latest inspection rating
- Can we visit, and when
- What happens about funding, and what if the money runs out
Publish the fees and the inspection ratingBoth are the first things families look for and both are frequently absent. Weekly fees by care type, what they include, and your current rating from the relevant inspectorate — the Care Quality Commission in England, or its equivalent in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland — establish trust immediately because they are checkable.
Photographs of empty rooms
Families are trying to imagine their parent living there. Photographs of residents doing ordinary things, with permission, and of real meals and communal spaces in use, tell them far more than an immaculate unoccupied bedroom.
Help families choose calmly
Choosing a care home is often urgent and emotional. Families want to see real rooms and communal spaces, understand the types of care you provide, meet the manager and know what daily life is like: meals, activities, visiting.
Inspection, fees and how to arrange a visit
Link to your latest inspection report, explain how fees work and what they include, and make arranging a visit simple. Clear, factual information is kinder than marketing language.
Common questions
- What should a care home website include?
- Types of care, photos of rooms and communal areas, daily life, meals, activities, visiting, the manager, inspection report, fee information and how to arrange a visit.
- Should I link my inspection report?
- Yes. Families look for it and expect to find it easily.
- Should fees be on the website?
- Explaining how fees work, even as a range, helps families plan.
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