Dementia Care in Hebron, 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 during a Sunday drive down Route 85, when your dad couldn’t remember which turn to take to get back to the house he’s lived in for thirty years. It wasn’t a big moment, but it stopped you cold. That’s usually how it starts in Hebron, quietly, in the middle of something ordinary.
Memory loss doesn’t follow a schedule, and figuring out how to keep a parent safe at home while watching them change is genuinely hard. We provide dementia care in the home, built around consistency, calm, and keeping the day predictable because that matters more than most people realize when someone’s memory is slipping.
We’re a nurse-founded agency serving Hebron and all of Tolland County. When you call, you talk to a person who knows this work.
Dementia care at home means sending someone who understands memory loss, not just someone who can help with tasks. Our caregivers know how to respond when a person gets confused, agitated, or stuck in a loop, and they know how to redirect without making it worse. The goal is to make each day feel steady and familiar, because that’s what reduces anxiety and keeps people safer at home.
Day to day, that looks like help with morning routines, meals, medication reminders, light activities that match what your parent still enjoys, and steady company through the afternoon hours when sundowning often gets harder. We watch for changes in behavior or physical condition and communicate those back to the family. If someone comes home from Manchester Memorial Hospital after a hospitalization and needs consistent supervision during the recovery period, we can step in quickly and maintain the continuity that dementia patients really depend on.
Families across all areas of Hebron typically reach out when they’ve been managing on their own and have hit a wall, when the nights are getting unsafe, when they need to go back to work, or when they just need someone else to share the weight of it. We help with all of those situations.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our approach to dementia care is grounded in actual clinical understanding of how this disease progresses. That shapes how we screen and train our caregivers, how we structure the care plan, and how we handle changes when they come.
Nurse-founded. Our founder is a working nurse who watched families dealing with memory loss, safety concerns, and a parent who was changing faster than anyone was ready for. She built this agency around what those families actually needed, not what looked good on a brochure.
Built for this service. Dementia care requires a specific kind of caregiver. We brief every caregiver on your parent’s history before the first visit, match on experience and temperament, and make sure they know what to do when a hard moment comes up.
We pick up the phone. When something shifts with a dementia patient, it can shift fast. You shouldn’t have to leave a voicemail or wait for a callback. When you call us, we answer, and we help you figure out what to do next.
We know Tolland County. We understand the discharge process at Manchester Memorial Hospital, the roads and neighborhoods across Hebron, and the kind of families who live here. This isn’t an out-of-state call center. We’re local.
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 includes help with the morning routine, preparing or assisting with meals, medication reminders, light activities that feel meaningful to your parent (a walk, a familiar card game, music they know), and consistent companionship through the afternoon and evening. The caregiver also monitors mood and behavior and communicates anything notable back to the family. Structure and repetition are central to the whole approach, because predictability is genuinely calming for someone with memory loss.
We can often start the same day someone comes home from Manchester Memorial Hospital if you reach us in advance. In most cases, we can have care in place within 48 hours of your first call. Hospitalizations are disorienting for dementia patients, so getting consistent help in the home quickly really does reduce the risk of a setback. Call us as soon as you know a discharge is coming and we'll coordinate around the timeline.
We are a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or insurance. Most non-medical home care, which is what we provide, is not covered by Medicare. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover this kind of service, so it's worth checking your policy directly. We're happy to give you clear information about our rates so you can make a straightforward decision.
A home health aide is typically a medical role, ordered by a doctor and focused on skilled tasks like wound care or physical therapy assistance. Our dementia care is non-medical, meaning we focus on daily support, safety, routine, and companionship. The difference matters because most of what someone with dementia needs day to day isn't clinical, it's consistent and patient human presence. Our caregivers are specifically selected and briefed for memory care, which goes beyond what a general aide is trained or asked to do.
Yes, and for dementia care we take that matching seriously. Before we place anyone, we talk with you about your parent's history, personality, triggers, what makes them comfortable, and what tends to go sideways. We then match based on experience with similar situations and temperament, not just schedule availability. If the first match isn't right, we fix it. We'd rather get it right than leave a bad fit in place.
We maintain backup coverage so that a gap in the schedule doesn't leave your parent without care. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we contact you and arrange a substitute, always briefing the backup caregiver before they arrive. For dementia care, we know a stranger walking in without context can be unsettling, so we don't send someone cold. We communicate, we prepare, and we make sure you're in the loop before any change happens.
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