Companion Care in Westerly, 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 stopped by your dad’s place on a Tuesday afternoon, the one off of Beach Pond Road, and the TV was on but he wasn’t really watching it. He hadn’t eaten much. He lit up when you walked in, talked for an hour straight, and that’s when it hit you how quiet his days must be. That’s the moment a lot of Westerly families describe when they call us.
Companion care fills the hours between your visits. A real person shows up, has coffee with him, goes for a slow walk, helps with a little tidying, and just sits with him. It’s not medical. It’s presence, and presence turns out to matter a lot.
We’re based in Connecticut and serve families all across New London County. If you’re ready to talk, we’re easy to reach and there’s no pressure to decide anything on the first call.
Companion care is non-medical support centered on company, conversation, and light practical help. A caregiver visits on a regular schedule, or as often as your family needs, and spends real time with your parent. That means talking, playing cards, helping with meals, going on short errands, or just being a calm presence in the house during hours that would otherwise be empty.
Day to day, it covers the things that slip when someone is living alone: making sure meals actually happen, keeping the house reasonably tidy, reminding about medications (without administering them), and accompanying to local appointments. Families in Westerly often call us after a parent has been discharged from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and isn’t quite ready to be fully on their own again, but doesn’t need skilled nursing. That in-between period is exactly where companion care does its best work.
We cover all areas of Westerly, so whether your parent is closer to downtown, near the beaches, or out toward the quieter stretches of town, we can get someone there. The goal is consistency, a familiar face who knows the routine and earns your parent’s trust over time.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that background shapes how we approach even non-medical care. Our nurse founder built the intake process and caregiver briefings around the kinds of changes families miss when no one is paying close enough attention.
Nurse-founded
Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with an isolated parent actually needed and weren’t getting. She built this agency around those gaps, including how companion care is structured and supervised.
Built around this service
Companion care requires a different kind of matching than personal or medical care. We brief caregivers specifically for each client, and we pay attention to whether the relationship is actually working, not just whether shifts are covered.
We stay reachable
When something changes, and something always eventually changes, you shouldn’t have to leave a message and hope. When you call us about your parent’s companion care, a person answers and we sort it out with you.
We know Westerly and New London County
We understand the discharge process at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and what families here are typically navigating. We’re not a national franchise trying to figure out the area. We’re Connecticut-based and this is the community we serve.
How it works
Tell us what’s going on. No forms to fill out first, no sales pitch. We want to understand your situation so we can tell you honestly whether companion care is the right fit and what it would look like for your parent.
For companion care especially, personality matters. We don’t just fill a slot with whoever is available. We think about your parent’s temperament, interests, and schedule before we make a match.
We move quickly, and for Westerly families dealing with an urgent situation, often same day. We know that once you’ve decided to make the call, waiting feels impossible.
We stay in contact with you after care starts. If something changes, if the schedule needs to shift, or if you’re just not sure how things are going, you call us and we’re there. You won’t be left wondering.
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 involves conversation and real engagement, help preparing or sharing a meal, light tidying around the house, and whatever else your parent needs to feel comfortable and less alone. Some days that means going for a walk or running a short errand. Other days it's sitting together, watching something, or working on a puzzle. We take cues from your parent about what makes the visit feel normal and welcome, not clinical.
We can usually start within 48 hours of your call, and for families dealing with an urgent discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, we often arrange same-day coverage. The key is calling us as early in the discharge process as possible, even before you know the exact date. We can plan around a projected date and be ready the day your parent gets home to Westerly.
No. Medicare does not cover non-medical companion care, and most standard health insurance plans don't either. We are a private-pay agency, which means families pay out of pocket. Long-term care insurance policies sometimes include companion care benefits, so it's worth checking your parent's policy if they have one. We're upfront about costs from the first conversation so there are no surprises.
A home health aide provides hands-on personal care like bathing, dressing, and toileting, and in some cases works under a clinical plan. Companion care doesn't include those physical care tasks. The focus is on company, conversation, light household help, and keeping someone engaged and safe at home without crossing into medical or personal care territory. If your parent needs both kinds of support, we can talk through how to structure that.
Yes, and for companion care we think matching is the most important part of the whole setup. We ask about your parent's personality, what they enjoy, what makes them uncomfortable, and what a good visit actually looks like for them. We use that to guide who we send, not just who's available on a given day. If the first match isn't right, we'll make a change without making it awkward.
We notify you as early as possible and send a backup caregiver who has been briefed on your parent's routine and preferences. We don't send a stranger cold. When continuity matters as much as it does in companion care, we make sure the backup visit still feels familiar and comfortable for your parent. You'll always hear from us before there's any change to the schedule.
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