Portugal · Western Europe · care layer opened 2026-08-14
Carta Social — public directory of social responses, searchable by service type and location
Portugal 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 D7 (Passive Income) (€920/mo (~$1,000)).
An official República Portuguesa site with an English interface, searchable by area of intervention, kind of social response and location. The facility type to search for is ERPI — Estrutura Residencial para Pessoas Idosas, the statutory term for a residential structure for older people. The site is JavaScript-rendered, so it must be opened in a browser rather than fetched.
Portugal remains the poster child of retiring to Europe — top-tier healthcare, genuinely safe, and the D7 visa asks for only €920 a month. But the tax story flipped: the new IFICI regime excludes pensions, so retirees pay the full 13–48% progressive rates, and the 2026 reform stretched citizenship from five years to ten. Carta Social lists ERPI residential structures for older people — searchable by type and place, not a priced nursing-home table. Go for the life, not for the tax.
That context matters for care because the same decision that picks Portugal 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.