Companion Care in Groton, CT
Non-medical companionship, conversation, and daily activity support for seniors living at home.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You drove out to Groton on a Sunday and found your dad eating crackers for lunch because he hadn’t felt like cooking, the TV on loud to fill the quiet. He said he was fine. He always says he’s fine. But you left with that familiar knot in your chest, knowing the drive back to your own house was going to feel longer than it should.
Companion care is for exactly that situation. It’s not about medical needs or personal care tasks. It’s about having a real person show up, share a meal, take a walk along the Thames, play cards, and make sure someone who matters to you isn’t spending every weekday alone.
We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay agency serving families throughout Groton and New London County. We match carefully, we start quickly, and we stay in contact with you after care begins.
Companion care covers the hours that are hardest to fill. That’s conversation and companionship, light meal preparation, help with errands and grocery runs, accompaniment to appointments, and gentle activity like a walk or a game or just watching the news together. It’s structured around your parent’s actual day, not a generic checklist.
Day to day, a companion aide might arrive in the morning to help get the day started, share lunch, drive to a pharmacy on Gold Star Highway, or sit with someone who just needs another person in the room. Families in Groton often call us after a discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, when a parent has come home but isn’t quite ready to be alone all day yet. That transition period is exactly what this service is built for.
Companion care also handles the lighter practical things that pile up when someone is isolated: mail, light tidying, making sure medications are where they should be (though we don’t administer them), and just noticing if something seems off. That last part matters more than it sounds.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our approach to companion care includes a genuine clinical lens on what isolation actually does to people and what early warning signs look like. Your caregiver is warm and friendly, and they also know what to flag.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families in this county struggle to find non-medical support that was actually thoughtful. She built this service around what was missing: consistent presence, good matching, and real communication with families.
Built for companion care specifically. We don’t treat this as a lesser service because it isn’t medical. Our caregiver briefing for companion care goes deep: your parent’s personality, their history, what they like to talk about, what frustrates them, what lights them up. The match we make reflects all of that.
We stay reachable. When something changes, whether your parent has a harder week or the schedule needs to shift, you call us and someone answers. We don’t route you to a call center or make you leave a message and wait.
We know Groton. We know New London County, the layout of care around Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, and the specific texture of what families here are dealing with. That local familiarity shows up in how we work.
How it works
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 typical day looks different for every person, which is intentional. It might mean arriving in the morning, sharing breakfast, going for a walk or drive, helping with a grocery run, and being present through the afternoon. Conversation, card games, watching a favorite show together, or just companionable quiet while someone reads all count. The goal is to shape the visit around what your parent actually enjoys and needs, not a standardized task list.
We can often start within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and same-day starts happen when the situation is urgent. If you know a discharge from Lawrence + Memorial is coming, call us before it happens so we can have a caregiver ready to meet your parent at home. The post-discharge window is one of the highest-risk periods for isolation and setbacks, and we take it seriously.
No, companion care is not covered by Medicare or most standard health insurance plans. Medicare covers skilled medical care at home, not non-medical companionship services. We're a private-pay agency, which means families pay out of pocket. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover companion care, so it's worth checking your policy if you have one.
A home health aide typically provides hands-on personal care like bathing, dressing, and mobility assistance, and is often ordered through a medical provider. Companion care is non-medical: it's focused on social connection, light practical help, and daily presence. Some people need both, and we can talk through what actually fits your parent's current situation when you call.
Yes, and for companion care, the match is the most important thing we do. We ask about your parent's background, what they like to talk about, their sense of humor, their daily rhythm, and what kind of person they tend to warm up to. We don't send whoever is available. If the first match doesn't click, we make a change. The relationship has to work or the service doesn't.
We contact you as soon as we know, give you as much notice as possible, and offer a replacement we've thought through rather than just whoever is free. We keep notes on your parent's preferences so a backup caregiver isn't starting from zero. For scheduled visits, consistency matters to us as much as it does to you, so we work hard to minimize disruption.
Learn more about this service
All home care services in Groton
Companion Care near Groton
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
Private Duty Aides — Groton, CT
Book a 15-min call