Care Home / Nursing succession in Scotland

Name: Care Home / Nursing business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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312 of 691 care home / nursing companies in Scotland — 45.2% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured691

Director aged 60+312

Exposure rate45.2%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

691

Companies measured

312

Director 60+

173

Director 70+

45.2%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; care home / nursing nationally runs at 33.5%.

Measure	Companies
Care Home / Nursing companies in Scotland measured	691
Oldest director aged 60 or over	312
Oldest director aged 70 or over	173

Of the 312 with a director over 60, 32 score 50 or higher on business quality — 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	180	53.3%
North East	230	44.7%
Wales	390	44%
South West	752	39.4%
South East	1,277	34.8%
London	2,795	33.9%
East of England	736	32.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	620	32.4%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	3,930	37.6%
Consultancy Services	3,898	40.8%
Retail	2,680	25.9%
Agriculture	2,266	51.5%
Other Leisure	2,250	32.8%
Investment	2,104	33.7%
Engineering Services	2,065	33.5%
Investment / Fund Management	1,505	40.7%

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, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-care-home/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here — 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 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not 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 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.