Companion Care in Union, 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 Union on a Saturday afternoon and found your mom sitting at the kitchen table with a cold cup of coffee, the TV off, and nothing to say about her week because there hadn’t been much of one. She’s fine, technically. She doesn’t need a nurse. She just needs company, and you can’t be there every day. That’s the situation more families in Union face than most people talk about.
Companion care is for exactly this. A consistent person who shows up, shares a meal, helps with light tasks, and actually talks with your parent. Not a caretaker in the clinical sense. Just a reliable, warm presence that breaks the cycle of quiet days alone in a house off a back road in Tolland County.
We’re a nurse-founded home care agency serving Union and surrounding towns. Call us and we’ll tell you honestly whether companion care fits your situation and what it would look like week to week.
Companion care covers the non-medical side of daily life that still matters enormously. Conversation, shared meals, light housekeeping, help with errands, medication reminders, reading together, playing cards, going for a short walk. It’s the ordinary rhythm of a day that becomes hard to sustain when you’re older and living alone in a rural area like Union, where a neighbor isn’t just next door and driving yourself isn’t always an option.
Families in Union often reach out after a discharge from Johnson Memorial Hospital. Their parent is cleared to go home, but “home” means a quiet house with no one scheduled to check in. Companion care fills that gap without requiring a clinical level of oversight. It’s consistent company plus light practical help, and for a lot of families it turns out to be exactly the right amount of support at exactly the right time.
We’re nurse-founded, and for companion care that means our team understood from the start that loneliness and isolation carry real health consequences. We don’t treat companion care as a lesser service. We take it seriously in how we screen caregivers, how we match them, and how we stay involved over time.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating loneliness and isolation actually needed. Not clinical intervention. Steady, reliable companionship from someone who genuinely cares and shows up consistently.
Matched for this service. Companion care requires a different kind of caregiver than personal or medical care. We brief every caregiver thoroughly on your parent before the first visit. The matching process is specific, not generic.
We stay reachable. When something changes, you call us and we answer. You don’t go to voicemail and wait two days. That matters especially in a situation like companion care, where shifts in mood or routine are the signals worth paying attention to.
Local to Union. We know Tolland County. We know the discharge process at Johnson Memorial Hospital, the geography of getting around rural Union, and the families here. That context shapes how we work, not just where 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 might include a shared breakfast, light tidying around the house, a walk if the weather allows, and a few hours of conversation, a card game, or help with a hobby. Medication reminders and light meal preparation are part of it too. The shape of the day depends on your parent's routine and preferences, and we build around those rather than imposing a schedule. It's genuinely flexible, and it's meant to feel like a person visiting, not a service being rendered.
We can typically have companion care in place within 48 hours of your call, and in many urgent cases we've started same-day. If you know a discharge from Johnson Memorial Hospital is coming, call us before the date and we'll have a caregiver lined up and briefed so there's no gap between leaving the hospital and having company at home. That transition period is often the most important window to get covered.
Generally, no. Medicare does not cover non-medical companion care, and most standard health insurance policies don't either. Long-term care insurance policies sometimes include companion care, so it's worth reviewing yours if you have one. We're a private-pay agency, which means families pay out of pocket. We're upfront about that from the first call, and we'll help you think through what makes sense for your budget.
A home health aide provides hands-on personal care, things like bathing, dressing, and transferring. Companion care focuses on company, light tasks, and emotional support rather than physical care. Some parents need both, and we can provide either or a combination. If your parent can manage their own personal hygiene but is struggling with isolation and boredom, companion care is usually the right fit.
Yes, and we take this seriously. Before we assign anyone, we talk with you about your parent's personality, interests, sense of humor, what frustrates them, and what they actually enjoy talking about. Companion care only works when there's a genuine connection, so we don't treat matching as an afterthought. If the first match isn't right, we'll make a change. We'd rather get it right than have your parent tolerate someone they don't click with.
We always have coverage. If your regular caregiver is out sick or has an emergency, we find a replacement and we let you know proactively. We don't leave you to figure it out yourself. For companion care especially, consistency matters, so we try to limit substitutions and when they're necessary we brief the fill-in caregiver on your parent's routine and preferences before they arrive.
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Private Duty Aides — Union, CT
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