Free Personal and Nursing Care in Scotland
Personal care is available without charge for everyone in Scotland aged 65 and over who have been assessed by the local authority as needing it.
Free nursing care is available for people of any age.
This section contains information on:
- entitlement;
- copies of current guidance for local authorities;
- background information on the work of the Care Development Group;
- background information on Lord Sutherland's Independent Review of Free Personal & Nursing Care, in Scotland; and
- papers regarding free personal care released under the Freedom of Information Act.