Companion Care in Ledyard, 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 Ledyard on a Sunday afternoon and found your dad sitting in the same chair he’d been in all week, the television off, the curtains still closed. He said he was fine. He always says he’s fine. But you could see it in the way he lit up the moment you walked through the door, and you knew that one afternoon a week isn’t enough.
Companion care is for exactly that situation. It’s not about medical needs or personal hygiene. It’s about someone showing up consistently, having a real conversation, helping with small things around the house, and making sure your parent isn’t spending day after day in silence.
We’re a nurse-founded agency serving Ledyard and all of New London County. When you call us, you talk to someone who has actually sat at a kitchen table with a family like yours and figured out what kind of help makes sense.
Companion care is regular, reliable human presence. A caregiver comes to your parent’s home on a schedule you set, spends time with them in a real way, and helps with the kinds of tasks that pile up when someone is living alone. That means conversation, shared meals, light housekeeping, help with errands, and someone who notices when something seems off.
Families in Ledyard often reach out after a discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, when a parent has come home and the house feels too quiet and too risky all at once. Companion care bridges that gap. It’s not a clinical service, but it keeps a capable person in the home, someone who can flag changes and keep your parent engaged while they recover or simply as they get older.
We serve all areas of Ledyard, and we hear the same thing from families across the town: they don’t need a nurse every day, they need someone trustworthy who genuinely shows up. That’s the whole purpose of this service. Light help with meals, reading together, a drive to an appointment, a walk outside when the weather is decent, and someone to call if something changes.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our team understands the line between companion care and clinical care clearly, which means your caregiver stays in their lane, communicates well, and knows exactly when to loop in the family or a medical professional.
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 companion care visit looks different depending on your parent, but it usually involves conversation, help with a light meal, assistance with household tasks like laundry or tidying up, and sometimes an errand or a walk. The caregiver pays attention to how your parent is doing and flags anything that seems worth mentioning to the family. It's structured around your parent's rhythm, not a checklist.
In most cases we can have a caregiver in place within 48 hours, and for urgent situations in Ledyard we often move faster than that. If you know a discharge date is coming, calling us a few days early gives us the best chance to have someone ready the day your parent gets home. We understand that the hours right after a hospital stay can be some of the hardest.
Medicare does not cover companion care, and most private insurance plans don't either. Long-term care insurance sometimes does, depending on the policy, so it's worth checking your plan documents or calling your insurer directly. We're a private-pay agency, which means families pay out of pocket, and we're upfront about costs from the start so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically provides hands-on personal care, things like bathing, dressing, and mobility assistance, and may carry clinical certifications. Companion care is non-medical. It's focused on presence, conversation, light household help, and keeping your parent safe and engaged day to day. If your parent needs help with personal hygiene or has medical needs, we'll talk through whether personal care or another service is a better fit.
Yes, and for companion care it's one of the most important things we do. We ask questions about your parent during our first conversation, what they like to talk about, how they spend their time, what their temperament is, whether they're guarded with new people or warm right away. We use that to choose someone we think will actually click with them. If the first match isn't right, we'll make a change.
We contact you as soon as we know there's a scheduling issue, and we work to get a substitute in place quickly. We don't leave families to figure that out on their own. If a substitute caregiver is coming, we make sure they're briefed on your parent's situation before they arrive so it's not starting from scratch. Consistency matters, and we take gaps in coverage seriously.
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Private Duty Aides — Ledyard, CT
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