Dementia Care in Pomfret, 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 on a Sunday afternoon at the house off Route 44, when your father walked into the kitchen three times in ten minutes looking for something he couldn’t name. He wasn’t alarmed. You were. That moment is why you’re here, and we want you to know it’s a reasonable place to be looking for help.
Pomfret is a quiet town, the kind where people want to stay home as long as they can. For someone with dementia, familiar surroundings really do help. But the family watching from the next room, or driving over from Putnam, carries a weight that builds up fast.
We provide private-pay, non-medical dementia care in the home, and we’re here to talk through what your situation actually looks like before anything else.
Dementia care at home centers on consistency and safety. Your parent needs someone who shows up at the same time, uses the same routine, and doesn’t get flustered when the day goes sideways. Our aides help with meals, medication reminders, personal hygiene, and light household tasks, but the deeper work is staying calm and keeping the day predictable when the person in their care can’t do that for themselves anymore.
Families across all areas of Pomfret typically call us when they’ve hit a wall: the nights are getting worse, wandering has become a real concern, or a parent just came home from Day Kimball Hospital after a health event and the family realizes they can’t do it alone. We step in at whatever point you’re at. A few hours of morning coverage to get the day started safely, or a longer shift to give a family member a real break, or full daily coverage when the need is constant.
Memory loss changes the job description for whoever is in the room. Redirection, patience, knowing when to let something go and when to stay firm on safety, those skills matter here. We brief every caregiver on your parent’s specific patterns, triggers, and preferences before the first visit.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that shapes everything about how we approach dementia care specifically. A nurse’s eye for what’s changing clinically, what to document, and what needs to be flagged means we’re watching in a way that goes beyond basic supervision.
Nurse-founded, so this service was built right
Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families managing memory loss, safety risks, and broken routines actually needed. The way we screen, train, and brief caregivers came directly from that experience, not from a franchise manual.
Dementia care is different, and we treat it that way
We don’t send a general aide and hope for the best. Caregivers placed for dementia care have specific experience with redirection, routine-building, and staying steady when the person in their care is frightened or confused. The briefing before a first visit matters more here than in almost any other service we offer.
We stay reachable when things change
Dementia is not a stable condition. When something shifts, you need to be able to reach someone who knows your parent’s situation and can help you figure out what to do next. We answer. That’s not a promise we make lightly.
We know Windham County and the people here
We understand the discharge process at Day Kimball Hospital, the geography of Pomfret, and the way families in this part of Connecticut tend to handle things quietly until they really can’t anymore. We’re not a distant agency trying to serve a map. We’re local.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on at home. No forms to fill out before we talk, no pressure to commit. We want to understand your parent’s situation and what’s making this hard right now.
Availability alone isn’t enough. We match based on temperament, experience with memory loss, and the specific things your parent responds to. This step takes a little more care, and it’s worth it.
For urgent situations in Pomfret, including post-discharge from Day Kimball Hospital, we move quickly. We don’t make you wait a week to get help in the door.
We stay in contact after care starts. If something shifts with your parent’s condition or you have questions about how things are going, you call us and we’re actually reachable.
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 morning routines like getting up, bathing, and eating breakfast, then staying present through the day to provide reminders, redirection, and companionship. Meal preparation, light tidying, medication reminders, and activity support are all part of the picture. The most important thing, though, is keeping the day structured and calm. Disruption and unpredictability make dementia harder, so a consistent routine with a familiar face makes a real difference by the end of the week.
In most cases we can have care in place within 48 hours of your call, and for urgent post-discharge situations we've started same day. Day Kimball's discharge team typically gives families some notice, so if you call us before the discharge date we have time to do the matching properly rather than rushing it. The sooner you call, the better the placement tends to be. We'd rather talk to you a few days early than scramble on the day your parent comes home.
Our services are private pay, which means families pay out of pocket. Medicare does not cover non-medical home care like the kind we provide. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover it, so it's worth reviewing your policy carefully if you have one. We're upfront about this from the first conversation so there's no confusion later about what costs to expect.
A home health aide is a medical role, typically covered by insurance, focused on skilled tasks ordered by a doctor. Our dementia care is non-medical, meaning we focus on daily living support, safety, routine, and companionship rather than clinical procedures. The two services can run alongside each other, and often do after a hospitalization. If your parent needs wound care or physical therapy at home, that would come through a separate medical provider, while we handle the hours in between.
Yes, and for dementia care we consider this one of the most important parts of the process. We ask you questions about your parent's history, preferences, what tends to calm them, what sets them off, and what their day looks like at its best. Then we match based on that, not just on who's available. If the first match doesn't feel right after a few visits, we talk about it and adjust. We'd rather get it right than keep sending someone who isn't a good fit.
We do not leave you without coverage. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we contact you as early as possible and arrange a replacement. For dementia care, we brief any substitute on your parent's specific needs before they arrive so it isn't a stranger walking in cold. We know consistency matters here more than in most situations, so we handle changes carefully and communicate with you every step of the way.
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