24-Hour Care in Salem, 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.
Your mom fell at 2 a.m. last month, and no one heard her until morning. Now you’re driving home from work with your phone in your lap, wondering if she’s okay. If you live in Salem and you’re already thinking about what happens tonight, you’re not alone. That’s where 24-Hour Care starts.
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Your mom fell at 2 a.m. last month, and no one heard her until morning. Now you’re driving home from work with your phone in your lap, wondering if she’s okay. If you live in Salem and you’re already thinking about what happens tonight, you’re not alone. That’s where 24-Hour Care starts.
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24-Hour Care means someone is in your parent’s home around the clock, awake and present. It’s not just sitting nearby. It’s medication checks at 6 a.m., walking to the bathroom at 3 a.m., watching for falls, making sure meals happen, and being alert to changes that matter. You can actually sleep knowing someone is there.
Day-to-day, families tell us they notice the difference immediately. Their parent gets up safely. Medications don’t get skipped. If something changes, we call you right away instead of you finding out later. You’re not holding your breath every time the phone rings. You can be at work or with your other kids, and you’re actually present instead of worried.
In Salem, a lot of our families connect with us after a hospital stay at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. That’s the moment it becomes clear that home alone isn’t safe anymore. We’re nurse-founded, which means we built this service from the inside out, knowing exactly what 24-Hour Care has to address. That experience shapes how we match caregivers and how we think through the safety pieces everyone else misses.
Nighttime falls, missed medications, confusion at 3 a.m., a parent calling out and no one hearing them. We started this service because we lived these situations as nurses. That’s not background noise for us. It’s why we pay attention to how we match caregivers and how we staff.
We don’t just send someone. We brief them on your parent’s habits, fears, preferences, and health. We match for personality fit, experience, and the specific things your parent needs at night. When the caregiver shows up, they already know your parent matters and how to keep them safe.
Health changes. Your parent’s needs change. A caregiver calls with a question at 2 a.m. You need support at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday. You reach someone who knows your family, knows your parent’s situation, and can actually help. We don’t disappear once we start.
We know the Salem discharge process, the local hospitals, the doctors, the neighborhoods. We’ve picked up families the morning they came home from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. That local knowledge matters when you’re building a safety plan in hours, not weeks.
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 Salem 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
Your caregiver is present for all 24 hours, awake and alert during nighttime. They help with bathing, dressing, meals, medications, bathroom safety, and getting in and out of bed. They watch for falls, changes in mood or behavior, signs of illness, and anything unusual. They call you about anything that matters. They're not asleep in another room. They're there.
We can often start within a day or two if you call as soon as you know discharge is happening. Lawrence + Memorial Hospital staff know us and understand our process. We brief the caregiver on hospital notes, discharge instructions, and your parent's specific situation. The faster you call, the smoother the handoff.
24-Hour Care is private pay. Medicare doesn't cover around-the-clock in-home care, and neither do most insurance plans. We're honest about cost because families deserve to know what this choice looks like financially. Many families use savings, family contributions, or reorganize other spending to make it work. We can talk through options and what different care levels cost.
A home health aide usually comes for a few hours a day, often ordered by a doctor post-discharge, and may be covered by insurance or Medicare. 24-Hour Care means someone lives in your home all day and night. It's for families where a few hours isn't enough anymore because of fall risk, medications, nighttime confusion, or safety concerns. The coverage and cost are completely different.
Yes. We talk with you about your parent's personality, what they're worried about, what kind of person would feel like a good fit, and what health or safety things matter most. Then we actively match, not just accept the next person available. We also listen when something isn't clicking and make a change. It's Salem, not a huge anonymous agency.
We line up backup coverage. We don't leave your family without someone there. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we send a trained substitute who's been briefed on your parent. It's not perfect, but your parent isn't alone and we've planned for it.
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