Older People's services

What we do

Older people are increasingly leading independent healthy lives well into their 80's and 90's, and reaching 100 is no longer the rarity it used to be. For example in Doncaster, according to the 2001 census, there were 308 people over 95 and 43 of these were over 100.

Doncaster Council is committed to delivering services to help older people live as independently as possible, either in their own home or in a care home. We also provide help for the people who care for them. 

We can provide:

• Support for older people to live in their own homes independently such as home care including help with shopping, dressing and getting up or going to bed or more personal care such as help with bathing.
• Aids & equipment that could help you with your daily life. 

We can also help with information about:

• Day Centres
• Residential care homes 
• Respite care (short term residential care)
• Specialist rehabilitation 
• Occupational therapy
• Lunch clubs 

Your needs may have to be assessed by someone from our teams to access some of the services. There may also be a charge for some of the services too.

Our service to you

We are continuously looking at how we provide services and whether we can provide them in different ways that suit different people. However, with the older population rising, decreasing availability of resources and rising costs of care it is crucial that we put long term plans in place to make sure we can provide what people need.

We are currently looking into what our priorities are going to be for the next 5 - 10 years and from this we will be putting together a White Paper that people in Doncaster will have the chance to comment on. We will let you know when this is available.

Get involved

If you are over the age of 50 you can also join our Older People's Parliament which is set up to allow older people to get involved in building the services that matter most to them.

Further Information

There are plenty of services available for older people in Doncaster. The Older People's Directory contains a wealth of information about services across the borough from housing to health to social groups and leisure activities.

Please download the latest edition of the Directory, which is attached as a document on this page.

Contact us

In the meantime if you need help or advice please look through the information we have here and hopefully you will find the answers you are looking for.

If not, you can contact us by telephone or by email, the numbers are at the top of this page.