What is Extra Care housing?
Extra Care housing is designed with the needs of older and frailer individuals and couples in mind.  Extra Care accommodation is purpose built, enabling people to maintain their indpendence whilst knowing that care and support is available within the development.  It is a real alternative to residential care. 

Everyone at an Extra Care estate has their own front door, to their own, self-contained apartment.

What's available?
Each Extra Care estate has its own estate manager and an on-site care team, who can provide support and asssitance with personal needs, such as washing and dressing and meals and personal hygiene.  

A range of communal facilities, which may include restaurant, IT suite, laundry, scooter store and health suite,  are also provided at Extra Care estates. 

Extra Care in Leicester
Leicester's first Extra Care estate, Danbury Gardens, opened in December 2007.  Located in the humberstone area of the city, Danbury Gardens comprises 57 self contained one and two bedroom apartments.  Twelve of the properties are availble for sale on a shared ownership basis, the other 45 apartments are available to rent.

For more information about Danbury Gardens please download the brochure at the bottom of this page.