Dementia Care in Andover, CT
Specialized in-home support for seniors with dementia, Alzheimer's, and memory loss.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You drove out to your parents’ place on Gilead Road and noticed the stove had been left on again. The calendar on the wall was still turned to last month. Your dad greeted you warmly but called you by your uncle’s name, and you stood there for a moment not knowing what to say. That moment, and the ones like it, are exactly why families in Andover start looking for help.
Dementia changes a person slowly and then all at once. You can love someone completely and still recognize that what’s happening is more than you can manage alone, especially from a distance, especially while holding down a job and your own family. We work with families in Andover who are in exactly that position, trying to do right by a parent while facing a condition that doesn’t hold still.
We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay home care agency serving Tolland County, and we can talk through your situation today, no forms, no pressure.
Dementia care at home is about holding routine, managing safety, and being a steady presence for someone whose world keeps shifting. A caregiver helps with the daily structure that keeps things predictable: getting up at the same time, eating regular meals, taking medications as prescribed, and moving through the day without confusion triggering distress. Routine matters more with dementia than almost anything else, and maintaining it takes patience and consistency.
Day to day, that looks like help with bathing, dressing, and grooming done at a calm pace. It looks like meal preparation, light housekeeping, reminders, and redirecting when your parent becomes anxious or disoriented. It includes supervision so they don’t wander, and companionship so they aren’t sitting alone with their confusion. For families in Andover whose parents have been discharged from Manchester Memorial Hospital after a fall or a health event that exposed how far the dementia had progressed, care can start right away so there’s no gap between the hospital and home.
Families throughout Andover, whether a parent lives alone on a rural road or closer to town, often need someone who can be there for several hours a day or around the clock when things get harder. We work around what your family actually needs, not a preset package.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our approach to dementia care is grounded in clinical understanding of how the disease progresses, which means we match caregivers who have real experience with memory loss, not just a willingness to try.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating memory loss actually needed. Not just supervision, but the structure, safety awareness, and steady presence that comes from understanding what dementia does to a person over time.
Built around dementia specifically
We brief every caregiver on your parent before the first visit. We talk about what works, what triggers anxiety, what the daily routine looks like, and what’s changed recently. Our caregivers have real experience with memory care, not just general home care.
We stay reachable
Dementia doesn’t hold to business hours, and neither do we. When something changes at home and you need to talk it through, you call us and someone picks up. We don’t disappear after placement.
We know Andover and Tolland County
We understand the discharge process at Manchester Memorial Hospital and what families in this area are typically dealing with when they first call. We’re not guessing at local resources or geography, we work here.
How it works
We listen to your situation first. No intake forms to fill out, no sales pitch. You tell us what’s happening with your parent, and we help you think through what kind of support makes sense.
For dementia care, the match matters more than most people expect. We look at your parent’s stage, personality, daily patterns, and what’s been causing the most difficulty, and we find someone with the right experience and temperament, not just the nearest available person.
Often same day for urgent situations in Andover. If your parent just came home from Manchester Memorial and you need coverage immediately, we’ll do everything we can to get someone there fast.
We stay in contact after care begins. Dementia changes over time, and the care plan needs to change with it. You’ll always have someone to call when something shifts, and we won’t leave you guessing about what to do next.
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 built around dementia care focuses on routine above almost everything else. The caregiver helps your parent wake, get dressed, and eat at consistent times, offers reminders about medications, prepares meals, and keeps the home environment calm and safe. Throughout the day they provide companionship, redirect confusion or agitation gently, and watch for anything that looks like a fall risk or a change in condition. In the evening, they help wind down in a way that reduces the sundowning effect that many families find hardest to manage.
In most cases, we can have care in place within 48 hours, and often same day if the situation is urgent. If your parent is being discharged from Manchester Memorial and you need someone at the house when they arrive home, call us as early as you can during the discharge process. We've worked with many Andover families coming out of Manchester Memorial and we know how to move quickly when the timeline is tight.
Medicare does not cover non-medical home care, which includes the kind of dementia care we provide. Most private health insurance plans don't either. Long-term care insurance sometimes does cover it, depending on the policy, so it's worth reviewing your parent's plan if they have one. We're a private-pay agency, and we're straightforward about that from the first call so there are no surprises.
A home health aide is a medical designation, typically ordered by a doctor and covered by Medicare for a limited period after a health event. That service is clinical and time-limited. What we provide is non-medical, ongoing support centered on daily life, routine, and safety at home. The two can run alongside each other, but they serve different purposes. Families often use a home health aide for wound care or physical therapy follow-up and our caregivers for the daily support that keeps things stable between those visits.
Yes, and for dementia care we consider it essential. We ask about your parent's background, what they respond well to, what tends to agitate them, their daily habits, and the stage they're at. Then we look for a caregiver who fits that picture, not just someone who's available on the right days. Personality compatibility makes a real difference when someone has dementia because they can't easily adjust to a person who feels wrong to them.
We handle coverage. You won't be left scrambling or calling a list of people yourself. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we find a qualified backup who has been briefed on your parent's needs. We know that consistency matters deeply with dementia, so we try to keep changes minimal and always make sure whoever comes is prepared before they walk in the door.
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