Care Home / Nursing succession in Scotland

Name: Care Home / Nursing business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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334 of 739 care home / nursing companies in Scotland (45.2%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured739

Director aged 60+334

Exposure rate45.2%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

739

Companies measured

334

Director 60+

184

Director 70+

45.2%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; care home / nursing nationally runs at 33.5%.

Measure	Companies
Care Home / Nursing companies in Scotland measured	739
Oldest director aged 60 or over	334
Oldest director aged 70 or over	184

Of the 334 with a director over 60, 29 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Care Home / Nursing in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	188	54%
Wales	399	46.4%
North East	239	45.3%
South West	757	39.8%
South East	1,562	36.3%
London	2,497	33.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	602	32.8%
East of England	913	30.7%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	4,028	37%
Consultancy Services	3,979	40.5%
Retail	2,697	25.3%
Agriculture	2,268	50.9%
Other Leisure	2,235	32.6%
Engineering Services	2,119	33.4%
Investment	2,115	33.3%
Investment / Fund Management	1,634	40.5%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Healthcare pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Care Home / Nursing succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-care-home/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as a different trade grouping, a finer geography or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses; see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.