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What to post
Daily life, activities, staff and community, chosen to show warmth and standards rather than to sell, with a simple weekly rhythm your team can keep.
Social Care · Care Home Marketing
Social media that
reassures families.
For a care home, social media is not a lead machine; it is proof. Done well it shows warmth, life and standards to the families and referrers already weighing you up, and it does so without ever compromising a resident's dignity or consent.
The promise
Proof of life, handled with care.
The goal is reassurance, not reach. A steady feed of genuine daily life, run within clear consent and safeguarding rules, is what a hesitant family checks before they ring, and what a referrer points to.
Trust
The job social media does in care marketing
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Care home marketing is uncontested search space
20 yrs
Advising care providers on reputation
On the record
The coverage does the talking
A live feed of where our work has been showing up: real placements, real titles, real reach.
604M reach
England · BBC
Monkey business at Leamington Spa care home birthday party
83.7M readers
UK News · The Mirror
Penguins visit care home to give OAPs a dose of pet therapy
25M reach
Social affairs · The Independent
Unpaid leave 'huge step forward for millions of carers'
Syndicated
Social affairs · PA Media
Unpaid leave 'huge step forward for millions of carers'
What it covers
A feed families trust
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Consent and safeguarding
A clear, recorded consent process for residents and families, so the feed builds trust without ever putting a vulnerable person at risk.
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The right platforms
Where your families and referrers actually are, usually Facebook first, without spreading a small team thin across channels nobody checks.
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Turning it into enquiries
Linking the feed back to a website that converts, and to reviews, so reassurance becomes an enquiry rather than a like.
The definition
What is social media marketing for care homes?
Social media marketing for care homes is the use of platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to show the life, warmth and standards of a home to families, communities and referrers, operating within strict consent and safeguarding rules. In care its primary job is reassurance and reputation, not direct lead generation: it supports the enquiry rather than making it.
Because residents are often vulnerable adults, consent and dignity come first. The safest and most effective feeds are built on a recorded consent process, focus on activities and community rather than identifiable individuals without permission, and never trade a resident's privacy for engagement.
Social media works best alongside digital marketing for care homes and within a wider marketing strategy.
FAQs
Social media marketing for care homes FAQs
Facebook is usually the priority: it is where the adult children and local communities who choose homes tend to be, and it supports the community, groups and reviews that matter in care. Add others only if you can sustain them.
Everyday life and activities, seasonal events, staff and community links, and milestones, always with proper consent. The aim is to show warmth and standards, not to advertise, so families feel reassured rather than sold to.
Use a recorded consent process for residents and families, review it regularly, avoid identifying vulnerable individuals without clear permission, and give staff simple rules on what can and cannot be shared. We help operators put that framework in place.
Rarely on its own. It fills beds indirectly by reassuring families who found you through search or referral, and by giving referrers something current to point to. Judge it as reputation support, measured through overall enquiry quality, not follower counts.
Speak with us
One conversation tells you
if we're the right fit.
Thirty minutes with a partner. We'll tell you whether we can help, what the work would look like, and what it's likely to cost, before either of us commits to anything.
