Our trusted live-in care service provides 24/7 support from qualified carers in your own home. Ideal for elderly individuals needing full-time dementia, Parkinson’s, or mobility support.
Flexible hourly home care tailored to your schedule. Our expert carers assist with daily tasks, medication, and companionship for seniors with early-stage conditions.
Overnight home care for peace of mind while your loved one sleeps. Perfect for fall prevention, personal care, and dementia-related nighttime support.
Experience peace of mind with our CQC regulated Managed Care service. We provide expert support to help you find the right self-employed carer, with guidance, oversight, and continuity of care.
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24/7 care at home, delivered by a team of Curam carers to ensure continuous, round-the-clock support for your needs.
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Explore the cost of live-in care with private carers across the UK. Learn what’s included in daily rates, how pricing compares to care homes, and how to arrange affordable, full-time home support.
Find out the average hourly rates for private carers in the UK. Understand what affects the cost of part-time home care and how to choose flexible support tailored to your schedule.
Get clear guidance on the cost of overnight care with private carers across the UK. Learn when night-time support is needed, how much it typically costs, and what’s included.
Use our care cost calculator to estimate the price of live-in, hourly, or overnight care with private carers anywhere in the UK.
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Flexible hourly care visits from trusted UK carers, delivered exactly when you need them. Build a visiting care rota that protects your independence while keeping friends and family reassured.
Hourly visiting care is a home-based support service in which a professional carer provides personalised assistance in visits that can range from 30 minutes to several hours. These visits are scheduled according to the client’s individual care plan. Unlike live-in care or overnight care, hourly visiting care offers the balance of professional support when needed and complete independence when not.
Hourly carers can assist with personal care, medication prompting, mobility supervision, meal preparation, domestic tasks, companionship, and support attending appointments or social engagements. For individuals with long-term health conditions such as dementia, stroke recovery needs, arthritis, or mobility challenges, hourly care provides reliable and consistent support while allowing them to remain in familiar surroundings.
Curam connects you with DBS-checked, insured, self-employed visiting carers across the UK. You choose who feels right, agree on transparent hourly rates directly and keep full control of your care plan from day one.
Hourly care services operate through scheduled home visits by qualified carers. Clients can receive as little as one short visit a week or several visits per day depending on their requirements. Each care plan is flexible, allowing adjustments as health or personal needs change.
Through Curam, clients can:
Visiting carers are available across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for urban and rural postcodes alike.
Share your schedule and begin hourly care within days—often inside 24 to 72 hours for urgent support.
Easily add extra visits, arrange holiday cover or switch carers with help from the Curam safeguarding team.
Hourly care is suitable for individuals who want to maintain independence while receiving professional support. Typical groups include:
Hourly visiting carers provide a broad range of services, tailored to each client’s care plan:
Washing, dressing, and grooming continence support assistance with mobility and transfers bathing and evening care routines
Prescribed medicine prompts, observing side effects and reporting concerns, assistance with GP, pharmacy, or medical appointments.
Meal preparation, grocery shopping, laundry and light cleaning, household organisation and administration as well as support with technology such as video calls.
Accompanying clients to social activities, attending medical or dental appointments, support with exercise, walks or hobbies, providing emotional reassurance and preventing isolation.
Dementia-focused care routines, stroke recovery assistance, arthritis and chronic pain support, palliative and end-of-life comfort support, assistance after falls or injury and rehabilitation support following hospital discharge.
Temporary cover when family carers are unavailable, last-minute support for urgent needs as well as short-term visiting care during unexpected situations.
Hourly carers on Curam are self-employed and set their own rates based on experience, location, and level of care required.
You agree the rate directly with your chosen carer and see every invoice in the Curam app. There are no joining fees, no tie-in contracts and just a 12% client fee that keeps our safeguarding, technology and support services running.
*Rates vary throughout the UK. Clients only pay for the hours provided by their chosen carer.
Agree hourly rates, mileage and bank holiday fees upfront so there are no surprise costs later.
We’ll explain local-authority direct payments, NHS Continuing Healthcare, personal budgets and other hourly care funding routes.
Blend regular visits with respite, waking nights or live-in cover so care always matches your budget and goals.
Hourly care can be funded privately, through the NHS, with local-authority help or by combining sources. We can talk through each route so you can plan confidently.
Fully funded packages for people with complex medical needs. If you’re eligible, the NHS pays for visiting care directly.
Following a needs assessment, councils can contribute towards hourly care costs or provide a personal budget.
Receive funds from social services or the NHS to manage care yourself, giving you freedom to hire Curam carers.
Families can self-fund hourly visits and adjust the rota as needs change without long-term contracts.
Attendance Allowance, Carer’s Allowance or Personal Independence Payment can help towards visiting care.
Every payment processed through Curam is encrypted and released to your carer after each confirmed visit, so you always see a clear record of agreed hours and costs.
Hourly care and live-in care offer two different ways to receive support at home. If you’re comparing short daily visits with round-the-clock live-in care, this side-by-side guide explains how each option affects independence, cost, flexibility and family involvement.
Many families combine both options — using hourly care for lighter support and booking live-in care during recovery periods, after hospital discharge or when needs increase.
Finding an hourly carer doesn’t need to be complicated. With Curam, you can browse verified carers, compare skills and availability, and arrange visiting care at the times that suit you best.
These steps walk you through exactly how to hire a live-in carer from start to finish.
Search for carers near you or post your care requirements for rapid applications.
Arrange a phone call or in-person meeting to discuss experience, expectations, and compatibility.
You can also have a video or audio consultation via CuramMeet.
Complete a digital service agreement, approve shift invoices, and begin receiving care.
Curam is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). When you’d prefer a fully managed service, we can wrap regulated oversight around your hourly or live-in care while keeping the flexibility and personal choice families love.
Our regulated team supervises assessments, quality audits and safeguarding escalations so councils, NHS partners and families have extra assurance.
We handle introductions, contracts, compliance paperwork and rota management—ideal if you want agency-style support without losing transparency.
Blend self-employed carers with CQC-regulated oversight for dementia, clinical tasks, direct payments or NHS Continuing Healthcare packages.
Local hourly visiting care across the UK
Curam’s network of carers supports people nationwide. Enter your postcode to discover hourly carers close to you, filtered by condition, language, experience or specialist skills.
We cover thousands of towns and villages beyond these examples—share your postcode to see carers available in your immediate area.
You schedule carers to visit at specific times for 30, 45 or 60 minutes (or longer if needed). During each visit they deliver the personal care, housekeeping or companionship tasks that have been agreed, then securely record what happened so family members stay informed.
Most Curam carers offer 30-minute minimum visits, with options for longer calls, double-up carers or extended respite if mobility or complex needs require extra time.
Visiting carers can help with washing, dressing, mobility support, medication prompts, meal prep, light housework, companionship, transport to appointments and respite for family carers.
Yes. Many families schedule evening tucks-in, weekend social outings or overnight sitting services to keep routines safe outside of typical office hours.
Once you post your requirement, it’s common to receive replies within hours. Most clients interview carers and start visiting care within two to five days, with urgent cover available faster.
Explore practical guides about visiting care, funding and preparing your home before you finalise a rota.
