Palliative Care in Oxford

Choosing palliative care at home allows people to remain in the surroundings where they feel most relaxed and safe, which can make a big difference to their wellbeing during this challenging time. At Home Instead, we provide personalised, at-home palliative care across Oxford to help those who need it continue living in familiar surroundings where loved ones can visit freely and typical routines can continue. Home may be where their favourite books fill the shelves, where family photographs spark happy conversations, or where a faithful pet greets visitors at the door. These familiar details can bring enormous comfort during this time, so our compassionate support focuses on helping preserve these as much as possible for your family, while managing your loved one's pain and symptoms. Our goal is to maintain their dignity and comfort throughout the experience, while paying close attention to their personal wishes.

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Highest regulatory ratingsCare for  18,000+ older peopleRecommended by 95% of our clients 10,000 trained Care ProfessionalsHomecare.co.uk rating 9.6/10
Highest regulatory ratingsCare for  18,000+ older peopleRecommended by 95% of our clients 10,000 trained Care ProfessionalsHomecare.co.uk rating 9.6/10

Why Home Instead?

Personalised, compassionate palliative care

We support those with terminal illnesses or who require intensive pain management, helping them to remain in their own homes where they feel most comfortable, surrounded by loved ones.

20 years of trusted experience

We exceed UK regulatory standards, rank highly on Homecare.co.uk, and our qualified Care Professionals are trained to the highest standard so you can have complete peace of mind.

A simple, seamless set-up

No jargon, no pressure, no long waits. We'll guide you through every step at your pace, with transparent pricing from day one.

Fully flexible, unhurried support

Whether it's a few hours of companionship or round-the-clock palliative care, we work to your schedule – not the other way around.

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Home care in Oxford

Home care in Oxford supports people to live independently and comfortably in the place they know best - home. Enter postcode of the person to find your nearest office and local care team.

  • Witney
  • Carterton
  • Kidlington
  • Headington
  • Blackbird Leys
  • New Marston
  • Littlemore
  • Greater Leys
  • Eynsham
  • Wood Farm
  • Kennington
  • Cutteslowe
  • Wheatley
  • Jericho
  • City Centre
  • Yarnton
  • Madley Park
  • Iffley
  • Bampton
  • Long Hanborough
  • Garden City
  • Cogges
  • Risinghurst
  • North Leigh
  • Stonesfield
  • Standlake
  • Ducklington
  • Burford
  • Freeland
  • Horspath
  • Minster Lovell
  • Boars Hill
  • Cumnor
  • Wolvercote
  • Botley
  • Sandford-on-Thames
  • Leafield
  • Thrupp
  • Clanfield
  • North Hinksey
  • Dean Court
  • Begbroke
  • Brize Norton
  • Combe
  • Islip
  • Worton
  • Cassington
  • Stanton Harcourt
  • Hailey
  • Farmoor
  • Forest Hill
  • Beckley
  • Littleworth
  • Horton-cum-Studley
  • Alvescot
  • Charlton-on-Otmoor
  • Sutton
  • Crawley
  • Shipton-on-Cherwell
  • Fulbrook
  • Barton
  • Stanton St John
  • Langley
  • Shilton
  • Northmoor
  • South Leigh
  • Rose Hill
  • Black Bourton
  • East End
  • Henwood
  • Church Hanborough
  • Marston
  • Holton
  • Delly End
  • Wytham
  • New Yatt
  • Poffley End
  • Noke
  • Hampton Poyle
  • Taynton
  • Cote
  • Oddington
  • Swinbrook
  • Filchampstead
  • Windrush
  • Fencott
  • Waterperry
  • Field Assarts
  • Hardwick
  • Great Barrington
  • Waterstock
  • Little Barrington
  • Westwell
  • Asthall Leigh
  • Radcot
  • Elsfield
  • Barnard Gate
  • Eaton
  • Widford
  • Lew
  • Woodeaton
  • Curbridge
  • Fordwells
  • Grafton
  • High Cogges
  • Signet
  • Asthall
  • Northway
  • Gosford
  • Cowley
  • Weald
  • Holwell
  • Swinford
  • Water Eaton
  • Aston
  • Wilcote
  • Upton
  • Yelford
  • Worsham
  • Moreton
  • Binsey
  • Sandhills
  • Murcott
  • Chimney
  • West End
  • Deer Park
  • West Oxford
  • Osney
  • East Oxford
  • North Oxford
  • South Oxford
  • Brighthampton
  • South Hinksey
  • Godstow
  • Woodperry
  • Shifford
  • Hill Grove Farm
  • Hampton Gay
  • Draycot
  • White Oak Green
  • Little Clanfield
  • Wootton Village
  • Caswell Farm
  • Astrop Farm
  • Peashell Farm
  • Scott's House
  • Chilswell
  • Oxfordshire
  • Aylesbury
  • Denton
  • Thame
  • Linslade
  • Southcourt
  • Coppice
  • Chinnor
  • Fairford Leys
  • Ludgershall
  • Bedgrove
  • Aston Clinton
  • Berryfields
  • Buckingham Park
  • Walton
  • Haddenham
  • Stoke Mandeville
  • Chalgrove
  • Long Crendon
  • Watlington
  • Watermead
  • Weston Turville
  • Clare
  • Waddesdon
  • Victoria Park
  • Cheddington
  • Stewkley
  • Garsington
  • Wingrave
  • Heath and Reach
  • Tiddington
  • North Weston
  • Horton
  • Edgcott
  • Quainton
  • Bierton
  • Grove
  • Longwick
  • Marsh Gibbon
  • Chilton
  • Cuddington
  • Ickford
  • Grendon Underwood
  • Stadhampton
  • Tetsworth
  • Great Milton
  • Dinton
  • Worminghall
  • Oving
  • Chearsley
  • Shabbington
  • Little Milton
  • Soulbury
  • Towersey
  • Cublington
  • Kingston Blount
  • Buckland
  • Lewknor
  • Aston Abbotts
  • Piddington
  • Weedon
  • Cuddesdon
  • Great Haseley
  • Aston Rowant
  • Wing
  • Blackthorn
  • Marsh Baldon
  • Milton Common
  • Hartwell
  • Halton
  • Postcombe
  • Henton
  • Bledlow
  • Sydenham
  • Ashendon
  • Charndon
  • Britwell Salome
  • Mentmore
  • Dorton
  • Nuneham Courtenay
  • Brill
  • Sedrup
  • Kingsey
  • Ledburn
  • Marsh
  • Emmington
  • Terrick
  • Cuxham
  • Rowsham
  • Broughton
  • Pyrton
  • Wotton Underwood
  • Chiselhampton
  • Upper Winchendon
  • Christmas Common
  • Ford
  • Oakley
  • Kimble Wick
  • Crafton
  • Holly Green
  • Fleet Marston
  • Greenfield
  • Stone
  • Little Haseley
  • Bishopstone
  • Ilmer
  • Baldon Row
  • Sprig's Alley
  • Westcott
  • Stoke Talmage
  • Brookhampton
  • Pitchcott
  • Woodham
  • Shirburn
  • Crowell
  • Drayton Beauchamp
  • Hollingdon
  • Owlswick
  • Bragenham
  • Meadle
  • Gibraltar
  • Brightwell Baldwin
  • Kingston Stert
  • Rushmere
  • Creslow
  • Albury
  • Honeyburge
  • Boarstall
  • Saunderton
  • South Weston
  • Toot Baldon
  • Kingswood
  • Hempton Wainhill
  • North Lee
  • Aston Sandford
  • Skittle Green
  • Whitchurch
  • Easington
  • Adwell
  • Upper Pollicott
  • Hulcott
  • Horsenden
  • Forty Green
  • Burcott
  • Lower Pollicott
  • Walton Hall
  • Haydon Hill
  • Kingsbrook
  • Quarrendon
  • Askett
  • Monks Risborough
  • Arncott
  • Warpsgrove
  • Rocklane Farm
  • Brightwell Upperton
  • Lower Winchendon
  • Weedon Hill
  • Starveall
  • Buckland Wharf
  • Westlington
  • Chippinghurst
  • Little Meadle
  • Wheatfield
  • Rofford
  • Lower Ascott
  • Cooks Wharf
  • Stewkley Dean
  • Rycote
  • Little Baldon
  • Buckinghamshire

Trusted, Personalised Home Care in Oxford

When a Home Instead client enters palliative or end-of-life care, our team visits them at home to assess their evolving needs and preferences. We then create a comprehensive, person-centred care plan tailored to their situation. Our Care Professionals receive client-specific training to address both medical and emotional needs. This approach helps clients focus on what they can still enjoy, reducing discomfort and stress. For families, our palliative care at home provides respite, allowing them to step away from caregiving duties and spend quality time with their loved one. We work alongside the family, offering guidance and support, creating a peaceful environment for lasting memories and meaningful moments.

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Our Care Starts With Connection

Meaningful support grows stronger when it's not interrupted by frequent changes, and we encourage this consistency by matching your loved one with a dedicated Care Professional who not only has experience working with their condition, but also understands their personality, routines and their preferred way of communicating. Through regular visits, they can start to build a genuine relationship that's based on trust and a mutual understanding. Whether accompanying them to appointments at Churchill Hospital, coordinating with visiting healthcare professionals or providing support within the home, they can become a valued part of everyday life. Specialist palliative care training equips each one of our Care Professionals to provide person-centred communication, emotional support and recognise changing needs. Together with regular reviews involving your family, we ensure care remains responsive, reliable, and consistent throughout their journey.

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Our Home Care Services

We're ready to help you make an informed, confident choice for your loved one, with bespoke and easily-adapted packages designed around their needs.

  • Hourly Home Care

    Hourly Home Care

    When your loved one begins to need more frequent support, our flexible home care solutions help them stay safe and independent at home. We don't take a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we personalise your experience with responsive, attentive, and genuinely compassionate care, so you can feel reassured they are in capable hands.

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  • Respite Home Care

    Respite Home Care

    We understand how overwhelming it can be to leave your loved one if they live with a condition like dementia, arthritis, or diabetes. Our highly experienced Care Professionals are matched based on their specialist knowledge and expertise, so you can feel content knowing your loved one's health conditions are carefully monitored and managed.

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  • Overnight Home Care

    Overnight Home Care

    We are proud to be the benchmark for exceptional care, so all of our qualified Care Professionals receive training that goes above and beyond the industry standard. When it comes to complex health conditions, you can rest assured that your loved one's safety and wellbeing is always a top priority.

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  • Live-in Home Care

    Live-in Home Care

    Our live-in care provides round-the-clock support and offers a welcome alternative to residential care, empowering your loved one to remain independent in the environment they know. With person-centred care from someone they recognise, older individuals can benefit from familiarity, friendship, and a consistent care plan.

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Thanks again for the great care you all are giving Mum, from someone so reluctant to accept care now looks forward daily to her Care Professionals. BIG achievement!

Janet, Client's Family

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Home Instead provide first class care. My care professionals are patient, kind and very reliable. I am very happy with the service they provide

Paul, Client

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As I got older, I realised that this service had made me happy in my own home.

Elisie, Client

Our Oxford Team is With You Through Every Step

Studies find that those with a life-limiting illness and their families both prefer to receive palliative care at home, so Home Instead's Oxford team helps make this happen by providing dependable support that eases the practical demands placed on families, and preserves the sense of familiarity that home can bring. We work alongside district nurses, GPs and local palliative specialists, and behind every Care Professional's visit is a dedicated office team coordinating care planning, arranging schedules, reviewing the service regularly and adapting support whenever your loved one's circumstances change. Throughout the experience, you can rely on our compassionate team to coordinate every aspect of their care, allowing you to focus on sharing meaningful moments together with complete peace of mind.

Smiling woman in green helps an elderly person with gardening, holding a green plant pot outdoors. - Home Instead

Award-winning service you can trust

  • Leaders in Care Award
  • A round badge reads “Top 20 Home Care Group Award 2026, homecare.co.uk” in blue and white. - Home Instead
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  • HCA Home Care Awards Winner 2025 logo with green, blue, and gray text and wavy lines. - Home Instead
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We deliver tailored home care to the Oxford community to nurture wellbeing and independence.

We adapt our services to fit your life, delivering compassionate, consistent, and attentive care, enabling you to thrive in your home and community.

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Our home help services in Oxford provide compassionate assistance with daily tasks, ensuring comfort and independence for your loved ones.

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Our dementia care in Oxford is designed by experts and is City & Guilds Assured, so you know your loved one is receiving only the very best care. Our Care Professionals focus on creating an environment that's calm and consistent, while maintaining dignity and familiar routines to reduce confusion and keep clients comfortable.

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Having someone stay in your home to provide care can feel daunting, but our live-in care solutions help to bring older adults more independence and enjoy a greater sense of wellbeing. If you value the peace of mind that comes with knowing there is always someone nearby, live-in care in Oxford could be an excellent alternative to a care home.

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The right support is crucial when managing pain and end-of-life care. Our palliative care focuses on dignity and enables your loved one to remain in the place they feel happiest. We provide considerate palliative care in Oxford, so you can spend more meaningful moments together while we carefully manage their pain and comfort.

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Taking a break from caring can feel impossible if your loved one is lonely or has challenging health conditions, but our respite care in Oxford is designed to step in with dependable care at any time. Whether you're recharging your batteries or managing other commitments, our Care Professionals can provide reliable support, so you can take time to yourself without disrupting routines.

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Discover personalised, flexible personal care for older adults in Oxford, from compassionate Care Professionals focused on encouraging independence.

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Discover personalised, flexible overnight care for older adults in Oxford, from compassionate Care Professionals focused on encouraging independence.

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Discover personalised, flexible overnight care for older adults in Oxford, from compassionate Care Professionals focused on encouraging independence.

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We adapt our services to fit your life, delivering compassionate, consistent, and attentive care, enabling you to thrive in your home and community.

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