Private Care for the Families
Who Won’t Settle
Nurse-founded, personally matched, and built around the rhythm of your parent’s home. Private Duty Aides serves Connecticut families who want clinical-grade oversight without the franchise call center — with a caregiver in the home in 24 to 48 hours.
Built by someone who has actually done the work
Private Duty Aides was founded by Marcathy, a registered nurse with more than a decade of bedside experience — eight of those years at Yale New Haven Health, much of it on the mixed-dementia floors where the hard cases live.
That background changes how we hire, how we train, and how we supervise. Every aide on a case is matched, oriented, and quietly overseen through a clinical lens — not just dispatched and forgotten.
We’re small on purpose. Most clients work with the same two or three people we’ve personally vetted, on schedules built around their household — not ours.
Licensed non-medical home care in Connecticut. We coordinate with Norwalk Hospital, Yale New Haven, Stamford Health, and Greenwich Hospital discharges.
Not every agency is the same agency.
Most home care is dispatched by a scheduler who has never met your parent. We do it differently — and the difference shows up in the first week.
Every aide is trained and supervised through an RN’s lens — not just placed and forgotten.
Personality fit matters more than skill on paper. We match for temperament, pace, and patience.
No franchise rotation. You work with the people who run this agency — direct, accessible, accountable.
Most families are matched with a caregiver within 24 to 48 hours. When something shifts at home, we move quickly.
We build a daily structure around your parent’s rhythm — meals, walks, evenings — and protect it.
You hear from us, not just the aide. Updates on appetite, sleep, mood, mobility — the things that matter.
Care that meets you where you are
From a few hours a week to round-the-clock support — here’s how Connecticut families most often start working with us.
Conversation, errands, light meals, the steady presence that keeps days from getting too quiet.
Bathing, dressing, grooming — handled with the dignity your parent expects.
Routine, redirection, sundowning support — specialized care for memory cases at home.
Backup for family caregivers, plus rotating coverage for households that need eyes on at all hours.
A caregiver in residence — full days, structured rest — for families who want continuity.
Coordinated transitions from Norwalk, Yale, Stamford, and Greenwich Hospitals — the first week is the riskiest, and we know how to handle it.
Specialized care for Connecticut veterans — VA Aid & Attendance navigation and caregivers comfortable with service-related conditions.
Non-medical comfort care alongside your hospice team — bathing, repositioning, family-present time, 24/7 coverage when needed.
In-home support after a CVA — mobility, transfers, aphasia-aware communication, and coordination with home-health PT/OT.
Private Duty Aides provides non-medical companion and homemaker services only. We are not a licensed home health agency and do not provide skilled nursing, medication administration, or medical treatment.
Guides for Connecticut families
navigating home care
Written from a decade of clinical experience — not marketing copy. Plain-English answers to the questions families ask in the first call.
The CT Home Care Checklist
What hourly, live-in, and 24/7 care actually cost in Connecticut — and how to read an agency quote.
Read it → Free GuideHospital to Home: The First 30 Days
The riskiest window in a parent’s recovery — and the checklist most families wish they’d had.
Read it → Free GuideUnderstanding Dementia Care
Routine, redirection, sundowning, wandering. What dementia care at home actually looks like.
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When a parent is coming home and the family isn’t ready
Discharge day moves fast. New orders, new meds, a changed baseline — and a family trying to absorb all of it at once. This is when we get called.
Call us before the discharge — we’ll review the new care needs and prepare a transition plan with the family.
An experienced aide, matched on temperament — not just whoever’s available that week.
Daily updates as the new normal settles in — appetite, sleep, mobility, anything worth flagging.
We had tried two other agencies. Within two weeks of working with Private Duty Aides, the household felt calm again. They sent the same two people, every week — and they actually knew my father.
— Adult Daughter, Fairfield County Client
Dementia & Live-In Care
What Connecticut families ask us
Most families are matched within 24 to 48 hours. For urgent post-discharge situations or a fall at home, we prioritize same-day or next-day placement.
Yes. Every aide on a memory case has completed training in behavioral redirection, sundowning support, and communication strategies for cognitive decline. We do not place untrained generalists on dementia cases.
Hourly rates depend on the type of care, hours per week, and acuity. We’ll quote a clear weekly number on the first call — no escalating add-ons, no surprise franchise fees.
Yes. We work with most long-term care insurance carriers, handle the documentation, and bill the carrier directly when the policy allows. We’ll review the policy with the family on the first call.
Where to start
The gap hospital discharge planners can’t close
Hospital discharge teams and care coordinators work extraordinarily hard under intense time pressure — often arranging services within hours. The challenge isn’t effort or intent. It’s that the speed of modern discharge leaves little room for the kind of deep caregiver vetting that families truly need.
Private Duty Aides was founded to fill that gap: a boutique, nurse-founded agency that does the slow, careful work of vetting — so families have someone they can genuinely trust when they need it most.
Our founder personally trained every caregiver on our team and established the clinical standards that define our approach — the same standards we’d want for our own family. 160+ towns across all 8 Connecticut counties. Most families have care in place within 24–48 hours of their first call.
Most families start with
a quiet conversation.
No pressure, no obligation — just clarity on what’s possible for your parent.
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