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Boutique Non-Medical Home Care · Connecticut at home

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.

By the numbers
10+ yrs RN-Led Care
8 yrs Yale New Haven
24–48 hr Caregiver Match
4 hr Visit Minimum
100% Background Checked
Founded by a Nurse

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.

Marcathy, RN
10+ yrs
Of RN-led bedside & dementia experience behind every case
Our Difference

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.

clinical eyes
Clinically-Informed Oversight
Every aide is trained and supervised through an RN’s lens — not just placed and forgotten.
the right fit
Matched, Not Assigned
Personality fit matters more than skill on paper. We match for temperament, pace, and patience.
no franchise
Boutique, Not Call Center
No franchise rotation. You work with the people who run this agency — direct, accessible, accountable.
no waiting
24–48 Hour Start
Most families are matched with a caregiver within 24 to 48 hours. When something shifts at home, we move quickly.
the rhythm
Routine-Based Care
We build a daily structure around your parent’s rhythm — meals, walks, evenings — and protect it.
straight talk
Real Communication
You hear from us, not just the aide. Updates on appetite, sleep, mood, mobility — the things that matter.
Our Services

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.

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.
Hospital Discharge? coming home

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.

01
Pre-Discharge Consultation
Call us before the discharge — we’ll review the new care needs and prepare a transition plan with the family.
02
Caregiver in 24–48 hrs
An experienced aide, matched on temperament — not just whoever’s available that week.
03
Family Communication
Daily updates as the new normal settles in — appetite, sleep, mobility, anything worth flagging.

Why families trust us

Private Duty Aides is nurse-founded. Every caregiver clears a multi-step screening — a background check, reference checks, and an in-person interview with our RN founder — before they are ever placed in a home. You get the same consistent caregiver, matched by a nurse, not whoever happens to be available.

Nurse-founded · Every caregiver personally screened by our RN founder
Common Questions

What Connecticut families ask us

How quickly can care start?
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.
Are your aides trained for dementia care?
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.
What does it cost?
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.
Do you take long-term care insurance?
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.
Explore

Where to start

why this agency exists

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.

let’s talk

Most families start with
a quiet conversation.

No pressure, no obligation — just clarity on what’s possible for your parent.

Call (475) 264-4830