Dementia Care in Farmington, 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 noticed it first in small things. Your dad forgot he’d already eaten breakfast, then got upset when you mentioned it. Maybe it happened at the house on Devonwood Drive, or during a visit you’d been looking forward to for weeks. Farmington is a quiet place, and the days can feel long when you’re watching someone you’ve known your whole life become harder to reach. We work with families in exactly this situation, and we know how much weight you’re already carrying.
Our caregivers help with the daily rhythm that memory loss disrupts: meals, medications reminders, safe movement through the home, and just being a calm and steady presence. When the routine holds, everything else gets a little easier for everyone.
Dementia care at home means showing up every day and doing the things that keep someone safe, calm, and connected to who they are. That includes helping with meals, guiding a morning routine, providing gentle reminders, and being a reassuring presence during the hours when confusion tends to peak. It also means noticing when something is off and communicating that to you right away.
Families across Farmington, from the neighborhoods near the Town Farm Road corridor to the quieter residential streets closer to the Avon line, usually need help bridging the gap between what their parent can still do independently and what’s become unsafe or overwhelming. Sometimes that starts after a hospital stay. Families discharging a parent from Hartford Hospital often find that the first few weeks at home are the hardest, and having consistent in-home support during that window makes a real difference in how the transition goes.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to dementia care carries clinical awareness into every home visit. Our caregivers are trained to recognize behavioral and physical changes that matter, and they know who to call when something needs attention. That background shapes everything from how we match caregivers to how we train them for this specific work.
Nurse-founded from the start
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with memory loss actually needed. Not a business model built around it, but real understanding of what safety at home looks like when someone’s memory is changing.
Built around dementia specifically
We brief every caregiver on your parent’s history, triggers, and routines before the first visit. Our experience with memory care means we know what to watch for and how to adapt when things shift, because they always do.
We pick up the phone
When something changes at 7 in the evening, you shouldn’t have to leave a voicemail and hope. We stay reachable because care for someone with dementia can change quickly, and you deserve a real answer when it does.
We know Farmington and Hartford County
We understand the discharge process at Hartford Hospital, the layout of Farmington’s neighborhoods, and the way local families are usually managing things on their own before they finally call us. That local knowledge matters when we’re setting up care.
How it works
We listen to what’s happening before anything else. No online forms to fill out, no pressure. Just a real conversation about your parent and what you need right now.
For dementia care, matching matters more than most people realize. We look at your parent’s personality, daily patterns, and the specific stage of memory loss, not just which caregiver has an opening on the schedule.
Often sooner. Farmington families dealing with a recent discharge or a sudden change in behavior don’t have time to wait weeks. We move quickly when the situation calls for it.
You’ll hear from us regularly, and you can always reach us when something changes. Dementia care isn’t static, and we don’t treat it that way.
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
On a typical day, a caregiver might help your parent wake up and get dressed, prepare and sit with them through breakfast, prompt medications, and guide them through the mid-morning in a way that keeps anxiety low. Afternoons often include a walk, a familiar activity, or just calm company. The goal is a structured, predictable day, because routine genuinely reduces confusion and agitation for most people with memory loss.
We can often have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call. If you know a discharge date in advance, call us while your parent is still at Hartford Hospital and we'll have everything ready for the day they come home. The first week after a hospital discharge is usually the most disorienting for someone with dementia, and having a familiar caregiver arrive on day one makes a real difference.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or standard health insurance. Most non-medical home care, including dementia care, isn't covered by those programs regardless of the provider. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private-pay services, so it's worth checking your policy details. We're happy to provide documentation that you can submit to your insurer if needed.
A home health aide typically works under a medical order and focuses on skilled tasks like wound care or therapy exercises, usually for a limited number of visits. Our dementia caregivers provide non-medical support, but they do it consistently, every day, in a way that's specifically shaped around memory loss. The difference in practice is that we're there for the whole day if needed, trained for the behavioral and emotional dimensions of dementia, and matched to your parent as a person rather than assigned by a roster.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before we introduce any caregiver, we talk with you about your parent's history, temperament, the things that calm them and the things that set them off, and what a good day actually looks like for them. For dementia care especially, a poor personality match can make someone's anxiety worse. We'd rather take a little more time upfront to get it right than send whoever's available.
We'll cover the shift. Consistency matters enormously in dementia care, so when a substitute is needed, we send someone who has already been briefed on your parent's routine and preferences, not a stranger walking in cold. We notify you in advance whenever possible and keep you informed throughout. You won't be left trying to figure it out on your own.
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Private Duty Aides — Farmington, CT
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