Home care in Camden.

Care that knows the borough.

Camden is a borough of many cultures, many languages and many ways of calling somewhere home. Across Camden Town, Kentish Town, Hampstead, Belsize Park, Bloomsbury, Holborn, Fitzrovia, King's Cross and Somers Town, families from every background live alongside each other and shape the everyday rhythm of the borough together. Around 26,400 Camden residents are aged 65 or over, and Age UK Camden supports more than 15,000 older people every year.

Camden Town and Kentish Town are home to a long-established Greek and Greek Cypriot community, with the Kosmos Centre as the cultural anchor. The Bangladeshi community in Somers Town, King's Cross and St Pancras makes up around seven percent of the borough; the Bengali Workers' Association and Surma Community Centre are the gathering points. Kilburn and Camden Square anchor one of Britain's most active Irish elder communities through the London Irish Centre. After English, the three most-spoken main languages in Camden are French, Bengali and Spanish, and over 140 languages are spoken across the borough's households daily. British, African, Caribbean, Chinese, Somali, Latin American and many other communities make Camden home. Everyone here belongs.

In February 2025, Camden became the first local authority in England to be rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission under its new assessment framework. The CQC noted Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, home-care services, reablement or safeguarding. The council's adult social care framework is built around "Supporting People, Connecting Communities" and a "What Matters" conversation-led approach. That local standard is the floor Hibant works to.

For families looking for home care, that shapes everything. The right carer is the one who feels right to the person being supported, whatever their background. That might mean someone who shares the accent and the rhythms of a neighbourhood you have always known. It might mean someone who can hold a real conversation in your first language. It might mean someone who knows what counts as comfort at lunchtime, whether that is a Sunday roast, dal and rice, a Cypriot mezze, jollof rice, congee, or anything else from home. Hibant is built around the same idea: care that fits the person, not the other way round.

Hibant arranges visiting care, personal care, dementia support, live-in care, overnight care, respite, post-hospital and end-of-life companionship across the borough. Carers are self-employed, personally vetted, and paid fairly so they stay.

Carers matched for who you are.

In a borough as layered as Camden, language and culture are not extras. They are how trust starts. A grandfather who wants a carer who shares his accent and the rhythms of the streets he has always walked deserves one. A grandmother who slips back into Bengali, Greek or French as dementia advances deserves to be reached in her own language. A widower who hasn't spoken Cantonese since his wife died deserves to be heard when he tries. The match should always be honest, never assumed.

After English, French, Bengali and Spanish are the most-spoken main languages in Camden, and over 140 languages are spoken across the borough's households daily. Hibant carers come from many of the same communities that make up Camden. We match across British, Bangladeshi, Greek and Greek Cypriot, Irish, African, Caribbean, Chinese, Latin American, European, Middle Eastern, Somali and many other backgrounds. Tell us the kind of carer you are looking for at enquiry, in whatever words feel right, and we will find someone who fits. If we do not yet have a strong match for what you have asked for, we will say so honestly rather than send the wrong person.

Cultural match goes beyond language: food preferences, religious practice, comfort with personal care from a man or a woman, willingness to attend church, mosque, temple, the local pub for a chat, or stay in alongside the person. We ask, you tell, we match.

After UCLH, the Royal Free or the Whittington.

Camden's main acute hospitals are University College Hospital on Euston Road for central Camden, the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead for the north-west of the borough, and the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill for Kentish Town, Highgate, Dartmouth Park and Gospel Oak. Mental health is covered by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL).

The 48 hours after discharge are when most readmissions happen. Hibant arranges short-notice carers for that window: someone to be at the door when the ambulance arrives, to organise medication, to make a proper meal, and to spot the small things that could send your loved one back to A&E.

If a Section 5 discharge or Section 117 aftercare is in the conversation, we can also handle that. Tell us at enquiry and we will pair you with carers familiar with the relevant care plans.

Frequently asked.