Erskine is a Veterans care & support charity headquartered in Erskine, Renfrewshire, but operating across the Central Belt of Scotland. It provides long-term nursing, respite, dementia and end-of-life medical care for veterans of the British Armed Forces, and their families, who have settled in Scotland. It supports veterans through four care homes and a Veterans Village, comprising 44 cottages, an activity centre, five assisted living apartments and 24 transitional supported apartments for working-age veterans. The charity opened and established itself as Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers in 1916. Its name was then shortened to Erskine Hospital and then simply "Erskine" in later years. It was opened due to the need to treat the thousands of military perso