24-Hour Care in Scotland, 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 sister called after the holiday dinner at the Scotland fire station community room. She’d noticed your mom getting up twice in the night, disoriented, reaching for furniture that wasn’t there. The falls hadn’t happened yet, but you both knew they would. That’s when you realized someone needed to be there, actually there, when the sun went down.
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Your sister called after the holiday dinner at the Scotland fire station community room. She’d noticed your mom getting up twice in the night, disoriented, reaching for furniture that wasn’t there. The falls hadn’t happened yet, but you both knew they would. That’s when you realized someone needed to be there, actually there, when the sun went down.
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24-Hour Care means a caregiver in your parent’s home around the clock, awake and present during the hours when falls happen most, when confusion peaks, when your parent needs someone to notice the small things. It’s not a medical service. It’s a person there at 2 a.m., at 5 a.m., at dinnertime, doing the things your parent can’t do alone anymore.
Day to day, you’ll see your parent eating regular meals because someone’s there to prepare and sit with them. You’ll see nighttime bathroom trips handled safely, without the panic of a phone call you’re dreading. Medications get taken on time. A fall gets caught mid-motion, not discovered hours later. Your parent stays in their own home, with familiar walls and their own bed, instead of cycling into institutional care.
Families in Scotland often come to us after a discharge from Windham Hospital, or when a doctor gently suggests it’s time. We’re nurse-founded, which means we know what safe looks like at 3 a.m., and we know how to match the right person to your family, not just the first available caregiver.
A nurse spent years on night shifts seeing what goes wrong when no one’s there. We staff with people who understand fall prevention, medication timing, and how to stay calm when your parent is confused at 4 a.m. You won’t wonder if someone’s really watching.
We listen to what your parent actually needs, what your family’s rhythm looks like, whether your parent does better with quiet mornings or steady conversation. The caregiver we send isn’t a placeholder. They’re chosen for your specific situation.
Your parent’s needs will change. A new medication side effect. A hospital stay that changes everything. We’re here to adjust staffing, swap caregivers if it’s not working, and keep you from feeling like you’re managing this alone.
We work with Windham Hospital regularly. We understand their discharge timelines, their paperwork, and how to bridge that gap between hospital and home care safely. We’re not learning your community as we go.
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 Scotland 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
A caregiver will help with personal care like bathing and dressing, prepare meals and help your parent eat, assist with toileting and incontinence, manage medications by setting them out and reminding, keep your parent engaged and active during daytime hours, and stay alert and awake through the night. They also handle light housekeeping related to your parent's immediate care, like laundry and tidying living spaces. The caregiver is present and responsible for your parent's safety around the clock, not just checking in.
If we know about the discharge in advance, we can often start the same day or the next morning. We work directly with Windham Hospital's discharge team to coordinate timing. If you're calling us after discharge because things didn't go as planned at home, we can usually have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours. In urgent situations, we'll talk through temporary options while we build your full care plan.
24-Hour Care is private pay, meaning you pay directly. Medicare and most insurance plans don't cover around-the-clock in-home caregiving for non-medical reasons. Some families use long-term care insurance if they have it, or draw from retirement savings. We're transparent about costs upfront and can discuss what a realistic budget looks like for your parent's needs.
A home health aide comes for a few hours a day, typically a few days a week, and focuses on personal care tasks. They're often sent by an agency after a medical event and stop once insurance coverage ends. 24-Hour Care means one or two caregivers are in your parent's home all day and all night, providing continuous safety and presence. The caregiver knows your parent deeply, catches small changes early, and is there for the moments when things go wrong.
Yes. We ask detailed questions about your parent's personality, what matters to them, whether they need someone quiet or talkative, if they have mobility issues or memory loss, what their daily routine should look like. We also listen to what you need as a family. We'll suggest a caregiver we think fits, and if it's not working after a few days, we adjust. A bad match isn't something you have to live with.
We have backup caregivers trained and ready, and we'll call you before sending someone new so there's no surprise. We try hard not to disrupt your parent's routine with constant new faces, but we also won't leave you without coverage. If your regular caregiver gets sick or has an emergency, you'll hear from us early in the day with a plan.
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Private Duty Aides — Scotland, CT
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