24-Hour Care in Southbury, 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 noticed it over Thanksgiving at your parents’ house on Mountain Road. Your mom didn’t get out of bed until noon, and when she did, she moved like someone who’d fallen in the night but never told anyone. You live forty minutes away in Waterbury, and you can’t be there every hour. That’s the moment you realize you need someone there at 2 a.m. when your parent gets confused, or at 6 a.m. when they’re most likely to fall.
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Your sister noticed it over Thanksgiving at your parents’ house on Mountain Road. Your mom didn’t get out of bed until noon, and when she did, she moved like someone who’d fallen in the night but never told anyone. You live forty minutes away in Waterbury, and you can’t be there every hour. That’s the moment you realize you need someone there at 2 a.m. when your parent gets confused, or at 6 a.m. when they’re most likely to fall.
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24-Hour Care means a trained caregiver lives in your parent’s home or stays overnight and into the morning, awake and available for the entire shift. They’re there for the falls that happen when everyone else is asleep, the medication that needs to go in at the right time, the bathroom trips at 3 a.m., the confusion that shows up at midnight. It’s not a nurse checking in once a day. It’s a real person in your parent’s home, watching, helping, staying alert.
You’ll see this play out every day: breakfast made and eaten sitting down, a walk if your parent can manage it, pills taken on time, a shower with someone there to make sure they don’t slip. At night, the caregiver is awake and nearby. If your parent needs help getting up, they don’t have to call out into an empty house and hope someone hears. If they fall, someone’s there. If they wander or forget where they are, someone knows and knows what to do.
In Southbury and throughout New Haven County, we work with families coming home from Waterbury Hospital or managing a parent who can no longer be left alone. Our caregivers are nurse-founded trained, which means we understand the medical side, the risk side, the real details that keep someone safe when they’re most vulnerable. We’re local. We know the discharge process at Waterbury Hospital. We know what families actually need at 2 a.m.
We built this service because we’ve lived the middle-of-the-night worry. A nurse founder understands the real reasons nighttime falls happen, why medications matter, and what you’re actually afraid of when you close your eyes. That shapes everything we do with 24-Hour Care.
You don’t get a random caregiver. We talk to you about your parent, their habits, what scares them, what time they wake up confused. We choose someone who fits. Then we check in, adjust, and stay responsive because 24-Hour Care only works if the right person is there.
If something changes, if you need to talk about your parent’s care, if the schedule needs to shift, you reach us. We’re not a hotline. We’re local to Southbury and New Haven County. You can talk to someone who knows your parent’s situation.
Many families come to us right after discharge from Waterbury Hospital. We understand that transition. We know the questions your doctor didn’t answer, the gaps between the hospital and home, the first seventy-two hours when everything can go wrong.
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 Southbury 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 arrives in the evening and stays through the next morning. They prepare meals, help with bathing and dressing, manage medications at the right times, assist with toileting and mobility, and stay awake at night to prevent falls and respond if your parent needs help. During the day, they might do light housekeeping related to your parent's care, take them to an appointment, or just sit nearby so you don't have to be there. The exact routine depends on what your parent needs.
We can often start within forty-eight hours if you call us before discharge. If you're already home and realizing you need help, we move fast. We talk to you about what your parent needs, match a caregiver, and get them into your home. Many Waterbury Hospital discharges come with a care plan we can work from. That speeds things up. If it's urgent, we talk about interim options while we find the right fit.
24-Hour Care is private pay. Medicare and most insurance plans cover home health aides for a limited time after a hospitalization or for specific medical reasons, but that's not the same as around-the-clock supervision. If you have coverage for home health, that's worth using first. When that runs out, or if your parent needs constant supervision, 24-Hour Care fills the gap. We're honest about the cost and can talk through what it looks like for your budget.
A home health aide typically comes for a few hours a few days a week, helps with bathing and dressing, and leaves. 24-Hour Care means someone is there overnight and into the morning, awake and available the entire time. The difference matters if your parent falls at 2 a.m., wanders at night, or needs medications managed around the clock. Home health is wonderful for what it covers. But it doesn't cover nighttime safety or the hours when your parent is most at risk.
Yes. We talk to you about your parent's personality, what they're afraid of, whether they do better with a man or woman, whether they need someone who's done dementia care or mobility work, what time they wake up, what makes them anxious. We listen. Then we choose someone from our network who fits that picture. This takes a little longer than just assigning the next available person, but it's how 24-Hour Care actually works.
We have a backup. We know your parent needs consistency, so we don't pull a stranger in on short notice. We have caregivers we've already briefed on your parent's situation, and we call them first. If something unexpected happens, you know us. You can call us directly and talk through what's next. We're local. We solve this together, not through an automated system.
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