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Home Care in Marylebone
Visiting and live-in care for older and disabled people in Marylebone, from the mansion flats off the High Street to the Lisson Grove and Church Street estates.
Yes, we provide home care in Marylebone, across W1U, W1G, W1H and the Westminster part of NW1. Carers can visit for personal care, medication, meals and company, or a live-in carer can move in, and it all starts with a free assessment at home and a written care plan. Marylebone is one of the easier parts of north Westminster for our carers to reach from Lewisham, but visit times still depend on who is free, so ask us before you plan around them.
Two Marylebones, a few streets apart
The Marylebone most people picture is the Georgian grid around Marylebone High Street, with Harley Street and Wimpole Street to the east and red-brick mansion blocks filling the gaps. Many period blocks have a lift the size of a phone box, or none at all, and the bathrooms were fitted long before anyone thought about grab rails or a walk-in shower.
Walk north-west across Marylebone Road and Lisson Grove and the housing changes to post-war council estates such as Lisson Green and the blocks around Church Street market. Here the lifts are usually bigger, but when one is out of service an upper-floor resident can be stuck. That matters on the day a hospital bed or a hoist is delivered.
For care planning, the questions are the same on both sides of Marylebone Road: can equipment get in, is there room to work safely in the bathroom, and can the front door be reached by a carer with a key safe or a porter. We go through all three at the assessment.
Getting a carer to the door
Marylebone is well served by rail. Baker Street has the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, Marylebone station has the Bakerloo line and Chiltern trains, and Bond Street has the Elizabeth line. From our Lewisham office a carer can take a Southeastern train to Charing Cross and then the Bakerloo line straight up to Baker Street or Marylebone.
Buses run along Baker Street, Gloucester Place and Marylebone Road (routes 2, 13, 18, 27, 74, 113, 139, 189, 205 and 453 between them), while the 139 and 189 serve Lisson Grove and Church Street. Marylebone High Street itself has no bus route, which is worth knowing if someone is planning a supported walk to the shops.
Driving is the weak link. Paid bays in Marylebone that usually have a four-hour limit and a surcharge on older diesels, and everything south of Marylebone Road, including the High Street, is inside the Congestion Charge zone. Our visiting carers travel by public transport.
One address worth knowing: 17 Marylebone Road. St Marylebone Parish Church houses the Marylebone Health Centre, an NHS GP practice, and hosts Age UK Westminster's weekly cognitive stimulation group for people living with dementia. If that is part of someone's week, a carer can go with them there and back.
Care we arrange in Marylebone
- Personal care
- Medication support
- Home help
- Companionship
- Sit-in service
- Live-in care
- Respite care
- Dementia care
- Complex care
- Palliative care
- Hospital discharge support
How do I arrange home care in Marylebone through Westminster Council?
Marylebone is in the City of Westminster, whose adult social care is run jointly with Kensington and Chelsea. You can ask for a needs assessment on Westminster's online referral form, or phone Adult Social Care on 020 7641 2500. A relative can make the referral with the person's agreement. A financial assessment then decides what, if anything, the council pays. If the council funds care, a direct payment lets you choose your own agency. If you are paying privately, we give you a written quote after our assessment. The wider process, including carers' assessments, is on our home care in Westminster page.
Hospital discharge in Marylebone can come from more than one direction. The western side tends to come home from St Mary's in Paddington, while the eastern edge near Great Portland Street is closer to University College Hospital on Euston Road. Either way, call us while the person is still on the ward so the assessment can happen around the discharge date.
When visits are not enough
Live-in care. A live-in carer needs a bedroom of their own and proper breaks. In Marylebone that rules out many one-bedroom mansion flats, but larger flats and the houses on the quieter streets often have the space.
Respite. If a husband, wife or daughter is doing most of the caring, short-term respite care can cover a week or two away, with visits or a live-in carer. The family carer can ask Westminster for a carer's assessment in their own right.
What we can help with in Marylebone
- Personal care, washing and dressing
- Medication prompting and support
- Meals, laundry and home help
- Companionship and getting out
- Dementia care at home
- Support after a hospital stay
- Short breaks for family carers
- Live-in care when needs grow
Elsewhere in Westminster
Home care pages for other parts of Westminster:
Our services
How we can help in Westminster
From a few visits a week to a carer who lives in, choose the support that fits.
Visiting care in Westminster
Regular visits for personal care, medication, meals and company.
Read more →Live-in care in Westminster
A carer who lives in, for one person or a couple.
Read more →Respite care in Westminster
Cover so a family carer can rest, recover or go away.
Read more →Supported living in Westminster
Our homes in Whitton, Kingston and Uxbridge.
Read more →Marylebone FAQs
Marylebone questions
Questions families ask us about Marylebone. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Ask a questionDad is having private treatment on Harley Street. Can you help when he gets home?
Yes. We assess him at home, build the care plan around what his clinicians have said in writing, and provide the personal care, medication support and practical help he needs. Anything clinical stays with his doctors and the community nursing team.
Mum's mansion block has no lift. Can she still have care at home?
Often, yes, but the stairs shape the plan. We look at the stairs, the front steps and the bathroom, and Westminster can send an occupational therapist to advise on rails and equipment. Sometimes it is worth asking the managing agent about a stairlift or a key safe early, because permission can take time.
Do you cover Lisson Grove and the Church Street estates?
Yes, along with the High Street area, Dorset Square and the streets around Baker Street. Live-in care is available throughout. For visits we will tell you honestly whether we can staff the times you want.
Some NW1 addresses near Regent's Park are in Camden. Does that matter?
Only for the council side. We cover both, but the needs assessment, funding and carers' support come from whichever council the address is in, so check before you fill in a referral form.
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