Dementia Care in Sharon, 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 walked into the kitchen and your mom was standing at the stove, burner on, completely unsure why she was there. It wasn’t the first time, but something about that Tuesday morning in Sharon felt different. You realized you couldn’t keep leaving her alone and hoping for the best. That moment is exactly why families in Sharon reach out to us.
Memory loss changes slowly at first, then all at once. What most families need isn’t a facility, at least not yet. They need someone steady, someone who shows up at the same time every morning and knows how to redirect a difficult moment without turning it into a battle. That’s what we do.
Dementia care at home means building a day around your parent, not around a schedule that works for someone else. It means a caregiver who arrives at a consistent time, follows the same morning routine, uses the same gentle prompts, and knows when to press and when to step back. Routine is genuinely stabilizing for someone with memory loss, and keeping that routine intact is one of the most important things a caregiver can do.
Day to day, our caregivers help with meals, medication reminders, personal hygiene, light household tasks, and getting outside when that’s possible and safe. They also just sit with your parent, talk, look through photos, play a familiar card game. That presence matters more than most people expect. For families across all areas of Sharon, we’ve seen how much calmer a day goes when someone steady is there from the start of it.
When a parent comes home from Sharon Hospital after a fall or a health event, the first few weeks are often the hardest and the highest-risk period. We work closely with families during that post-discharge window to make sure someone is watching for changes, keeping the home safe, and staying in contact with family members who can’t always be there in person. That continuity is where real support lives.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse who saw firsthand how memory care at home could go wrong when caregivers weren’t properly briefed and matched. That nurse-founded foundation means our approach to dementia care is built on clinical awareness, not just good intentions.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw how memory loss, safety risks at home, and the emotional weight on families rarely got the kind of careful attention they needed. That clinical perspective shaped how we hire, brief, and support every caregiver.
Built for dementia specifically
Our approach to dementia care goes beyond assigning whoever is free. We brief caregivers on your parent’s specific triggers, routines, and history before the first day. Matching for temperament and experience isn’t optional here, it’s the whole point.
We stay reachable
Dementia care doesn’t follow business hours. When something shifts at 7pm on a Saturday, you should be able to reach someone who knows your family’s situation. We keep that line open because that’s when families need it most.
We know Sharon and Litchfield County
We’re familiar with the discharge process at Sharon Hospital, the geography of the area, and the reality that families here are often doing this with fewer nearby resources than families in larger cities. We account for that in how we plan and staff care.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. We listen. No forms to fill out before you’ve spoken to a real person, no pressure to commit to anything. Just a conversation about your situation and what you need.
For dementia care specifically, we don’t just look at who’s available. We look at experience with memory loss, temperament, and whether this person is likely to work well with your parent’s personality and stage of decline.
Most Sharon families are up and running within two days. If your situation is urgent, especially following a discharge from Sharon Hospital, we move faster and often start the same day.
Once care is in place, we check in regularly. When something changes, you call us and we pick up. You’re not left wondering who to call or waiting on a callback queue.
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 starts with a consistent morning routine, getting up, washed, dressed, and eating breakfast at the same time in the same way. From there, the caregiver helps with meals, medication reminders, light household tasks, and activity or conversation suited to where your parent is that day. The goal is a calm, predictable structure because predictability genuinely reduces anxiety and confusion for people with memory loss. Evenings follow the same logic, winding down gently in a way that's become familiar.
We can usually have care in place within 48 hours, and for urgent post-discharge situations we often move faster than that. The days right after a hospitalization are high-risk for someone with dementia, routines are disrupted and the home environment can feel disorienting after even a brief stay. If you know a discharge is coming from Sharon Hospital, call us before that day arrives so we can have everything ready to go. Getting care started on day one at home makes a real difference.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or Medicaid. Most non-medical home care, including dementia care, falls outside what Medicare covers regardless of the agency. Long-term care insurance policies sometimes cover this type of care, so it's worth reviewing your policy or calling your insurer to ask specifically about non-medical home care. We're happy to provide documentation to support a claim if your policy qualifies.
A home health aide typically comes through a Medicare-certified agency for skilled or medical tasks, often for a short defined period after a hospitalization. Our dementia care is non-medical, meaning we focus on daily living support, safety, routine, and presence rather than clinical procedures. The practical difference is that we can stay as long as you need and can be there every day, not just when a medical visit is authorized. For someone living with memory loss at home, that consistency matters far more than occasional skilled visits.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When you tell us about your parent, we're listening for more than care tasks. We're thinking about temperament, communication style, patience under repetition, and whether this person will feel familiar and safe to your parent over time. Some people with memory loss do well with a calm, quiet presence. Others need someone more animated and engaging. We ask enough questions upfront to make a thoughtful match, not just an available one.
We keep coverage in place. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we find someone to cover that shift and we tell you who's coming before they arrive. For someone with dementia, a sudden unfamiliar face can be confusing, so we try to introduce backup caregivers in advance when possible. You won't wake up to an empty house and a voicemail. Continuity and communication are things we protect.
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Private Duty Aides — Sharon, CT
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