Mauritius · Indian Ocean · care layer opened 2026-08-14
Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity — Social Security Division
Mauritius is one of the destinations on this site where we have opened a primary source on elder-care regulation with our own eyes. The cells below are not price estimates: each one is a publisher we can name, with the month we read it. The retirement visa most people start from here is Retired Non-Citizen ($2,000/mo transfer).
The ministry publishes two separate lists on its own domain — charitable institutions, and private residential care homes. This is the charitable one: 22 entries at the date checked, running from religious homes and ashrams to orphanages with an elderly wing. Publisher and licensor are the same body here, with no arm's-length inspectorate in between, which is worth knowing when reading a list that contains no adverse findings.
Every entry carries the name of the institution, its address, the name of the officer in charge and a telephone number, usually an email as well — enough to ring a home before flying to look at it. The counts have moved, and both figures are the government's own: the 2023 press communiqué announced 23 charitable institutions and 53 private homes, while the lists as updated on 27 May 2025 run to 22 and 57. These are PDFs, not a searchable register, so a name has to be read down a page rather than typed into a box. They are still the licensed list, published by the licensor, with the date on the last line.
Named in the title of the government's own press communiqué of 26 October 2023: a list of 23 charitable institutions and 53 private residential care homes licensed under the Residential Care Homes Act. We have not opened the text of the Act itself, so what is published here is the name of the licensing instrument and the fact that the ministry treats it as the basis of these lists — nothing about its contents.
Mauritius is the Indian Ocean's best-run retirement port: English-speaking, politically calm, 0% capital gains, and near-zero tax if you manage what you remit. The 2025 tightening raised the stakes — PR now wants five years plus a $200k investment, and property schemes start around $375k. The ministry publishes PDF lists of private residential care homes licensed under the Residential Care Homes Act — fifty-seven on the May 2025 list. It's remote, and serious medicine can mean evacuation.
That context matters for care because the same decision that picks Mauritius for cost or climate is the one that later has to find a licensed facility — and whether a public register even exists is the part of that decision that can be checked before anyone flies.
Contract clauses that exclude custodial care — quoted with page numbers — live once on the care hub, not on each country page, so the wording is not pasted 14 times.