24-Hour Care in New Canaan, CT
Around-the-clock non-medical care at home, two caregiver shifts covering full day and night.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You got the call from your sister after she visited your mom near Tokeneke Road, saying something felt off, that your mother seemed confused about whether she’d taken her morning medication. That night you couldn’t sleep, your mind racing through the logistics of how you’d manage if she fell at 2 a.m. or needed help at 3. You realized your parent needed someone there, around the clock, and you needed to know they were safe when you couldn’t be.
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You got the call from your sister after she visited your mom near Tokeneke Road, saying something felt off, that your mother seemed confused about whether she’d taken her morning medication. That night you couldn’t sleep, your mind racing through the logistics of how you’d manage if she fell at 2 a.m. or needed help at 3. You realized your parent needed someone there, around the clock, and you needed to know they were safe when you couldn’t be.
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24-Hour Care means a caregiver is in your parent’s home all day and all night, handling the things that happen when no one’s watching. Medication reminders at midnight. A fall at 3 a.m. Help getting to the bathroom. The simple presence of another person who notices when something changes. It’s the difference between hoping your parent will be okay and knowing they’re being watched and cared for.
Day-to-day, you’ll see your caregiver helping with personal care, meal prep, mobility, medication management, and the small adjustments that keep your parent safe and comfortable. If your parent’s condition shifts, we notice and we call you. If your parent falls, someone is there. If they’re confused about what time it is or whether they’ve eaten, we handle it. The caregiver becomes part of the household, familiar and steady.
Here in New Canaan and Fairfield County, we work closely with families coming home from Stamford Hospital, where the discharge planners know our work. We’re nurse-founded, which means we understand the difference between checking on someone and actually managing their safety around the clock. We know what to watch for and when to escalate.
Nighttime falls, medication confusion, and the quiet hours when your parent is most vulnerable, these are the moments we’re built for. Our founder is a nurse who lived through what it means to be the only person awake at 2 a.m. when your parent needs help. We don’t just provide coverage, we provide the kind of watchfulness that lets you sleep.
We don’t assign a caregiver and hope it works. We brief every caregiver on your parent’s specific needs, habits, medical history, and personality. We listen to what your family needs most, whether that’s someone calm and quiet or someone more engaged and chatty. The right match changes everything.
When your parent’s needs shift, when your schedule changes, when you have a question at 9 p.m., you reach us. We adjust. We communicate. We’re not a big system where you’re a ticket number, we’re a local team that knows your family.
We know Stamford Hospital’s discharge process, we know the neighborhoods from downtown New Canaan to South New Canaan to Silvermine, and we know the nearby towns where many of our families have roots. That local knowledge means faster coordination and fewer gaps when your parent comes home.
How it works
We listen to your situation. No forms, no pressure, no sales pitch.
For 24-Hour Care specifically, not just whoever is available that week.
Often same day for urgent New Canaan families who need 24-hour care now.
We stay in contact so you’re never left wondering how things are going.
Why families choose us
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.
Every caregiver clears a multi-step screening — background check, reference checks, and an in-person interview with our RN founder — before they're ever placed in a home.
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.
Common questions
24-Hour Care includes personal hygiene assistance, dressing, toileting, meal prep and feeding, medication reminders and management, mobility help, and companionship throughout waking hours. At night, the caregiver remains in the home, alert and available if your parent needs the bathroom, falls, becomes confused, or has a medical concern. We also handle light housekeeping related to your parent's immediate care, laundry, and monitoring for any changes in health or mood. The caregiver is a consistent, trained presence who your parent knows and trusts.
We can often start within 24 to 48 hours of discharge if we have advance notice. We work with Stamford Hospital's discharge planning team to coordinate timing and get the clinical details we need. If you're still in the hospital or recently home, call us and we'll discuss your timeline. We may be able to arrange interim support or expedited staffing in urgent cases.
24-Hour Care is private pay, which means it's funded directly by the family rather than through Medicare or traditional insurance. Some families use long-term care insurance if they have it, but that's something to check with your policy. We work with families on scheduling and pricing so it's manageable. We're honest about the cost because we know this is a significant decision, not a quick fix.
Home health aides typically come for a few hours a day and are often ordered by a doctor or hospital for post-acute recovery. 24-Hour Care means continuous presence, day and night, for an ongoing need. If your parent can't be left alone due to fall risk, confusion, medication complexity, or behavioral changes, 24-Hour Care is the right level. A home health aide is usually shorter-term, we're here for the long haul.
Yes. We listen carefully to your parent's medical history, personality, habits, and what your family needs most. We then match a caregiver who is trained, experienced, and comfortable with those specific needs, whether that's dementia care, mobility assistance, post-surgical recovery, or behavioral support. We're in New Canaan regularly and we know which caregivers are the best fit for which families. If the match isn't working, we adjust.
We have backup caregivers trained and on call. We don't leave your family without coverage. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we arrange a backup who has already met your parent and reviewed their care plan. We notify you immediately and coordinate the transition. Continuity matters, so we minimize disruption and keep the backup caregiver informed about what's working.
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