Dementia Care in Litchfield, 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 down Route 118 last Sunday and your father didn’t recognize the green on the town square, the place he walked to every weekend for thirty years. He wasn’t upset about it, which somehow made it harder. That moment, the quiet confusion on his face, is usually when families in Litchfield pick up the phone. We’re here when you’re ready to make that call.
Dementia changes slowly, then suddenly, and most families aren’t prepared for either pace. You’re trying to keep your parent safe, keep their days feeling normal, and still hold your own life together. We can help with the parts that are getting hardest.
Dementia care at home means showing up at a consistent time, doing things in a consistent order, and being steady when your parent is not. It means helping with meals, personal hygiene, medications reminders, and getting through the day without confusion turning into fear. Routine is the whole job, and a good caregiver protects it.
For families across Litchfield, the specific challenges tend to cluster around safety and sundowning. Wandering risk, nighttime restlessness, refusing help with bathing, not recognizing family members during hard moments. Our caregivers are briefed on each person’s patterns before they ever walk through the door, so they’re not learning on the job at your parent’s expense. Families near Charlotte Hungerford Hospital also call us after a discharge, when a hospital stay has rattled a person with dementia and the transition back home needs extra steadiness.
We’re a nurse-founded agency, which means the person who built our care model has actually sat with families in these situations and knows where the gaps are. For dementia specifically, that matters because the clinical piece and the human piece are completely tied together.
Nurse-founded. Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating memory loss, safety concerns, and shifting routines actually needed. She built this agency around those gaps, not around what’s easiest to provide.
Built for dementia specifically. We brief caregivers on your parent’s patterns, triggers, and preferences before day one. Experience with dementia isn’t assumed, it’s confirmed. The match we make is deliberate.
We pick up the phone. Dementia care changes. A new behavior appears, the schedule needs to shift, something happened overnight. When you call us, you reach someone who knows your family’s situation and can actually help.
Local to Litchfield County. We know how Charlotte Hungerford Hospital handles discharges, we know the geography of Litchfield, and we understand what rural care coordination looks like here. We’re not placing caregivers from far away and hoping it works.
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 involves helping your parent get up, dressed, and through meals in a calm and consistent way. The caregiver handles personal hygiene assistance, medication reminders, safe mobility around the home, and keeping your parent engaged and oriented through familiar activities. The goal is a day that feels normal and settled, not clinical. Wandering prevention, redirecting confusion, and managing moments of agitation are also part of the work when needed.
We can often begin care the same day or within 24 hours of discharge from Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, depending on when you call us. Post-hospital transitions are particularly hard for people with dementia, and we treat them as urgent. Call us as soon as you know the discharge date and we'll work backward from there to have someone in place when your parent arrives home.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay directly, either out of pocket or sometimes through long-term care insurance policies that cover non-medical home care. We're upfront about cost on the first call so there are no surprises. If you're unsure what your long-term care policy covers, it's worth calling them directly before we speak.
A home health aide typically provides skilled or semi-skilled medical care ordered by a doctor, things like wound care, injections, or physical therapy. Our caregivers provide non-medical support, the daily living help and consistent presence that doesn't require a clinical license but makes an enormous difference in safety and quality of life. For most people with dementia living at home, non-medical care is the thing they need most and the most hours of. The two services often run alongside each other.
Yes, and for dementia care we consider this essential, not optional. We talk with you before the match about your parent's history, their triggers, what calms them, and what makes a hard day harder. We look for caregivers whose experience and temperament fit that picture. If a match isn't working after care begins, we address it quickly rather than leaving it to sort itself out.
We keep backup coverage in place and we notify you as early as possible if a change is needed. For someone with dementia, a stranger showing up unexpectedly can be distressing, so we take continuity seriously. We try to use the same backup caregiver when possible so your parent has some familiarity. You'll always know in advance who is coming and why.
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