Dementia Care in Somers, 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 visit to the house on Maple Avenue, or maybe after a phone call that ended strangely. Your parent repeated the same question four times, or stood in the kitchen not quite knowing what they were doing there. That moment stays with you. Now you’re trying to figure out what comes next, from miles away or from the next town over, and you’re not sure who to call first.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving families across Connecticut, including families right here in Somers. We work specifically with people experiencing memory loss and the families watching that change happen in real time. We can help you build a plan that keeps your parent safe, calm, and at home for as long as that’s the right choice.
Dementia care at home is about more than keeping someone company. It’s about building a predictable daily rhythm so the person living with memory loss feels oriented and calm. That means consistent wake times, familiar routines around meals and medications, gentle redirection when confusion sets in, and a caregiver who doesn’t change every week. Consistency is the whole point.
Day to day, our caregivers help with personal hygiene, meals, light household tasks, and safe movement around the home. They watch for signs that something has shifted, like increased agitation, changes in sleep, or a new safety risk in the house, and they communicate that back to you. Families across all areas of Somers also call us after a hospital stay at Rockville General Hospital, when a parent comes home from a dementia-related episode and the discharge plan doesn’t quite account for what happens at 7 in the morning before anyone else is awake.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our approach to dementia care was built with clinical input from the start. That means our caregivers are briefed on the specific behaviors and triggers your family has described, not handed a general task list and sent in without context.
Nurse-founded, built for this.
Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with memory loss actually needed. Safety at home, a consistent face, a preserved routine, and someone who noticed when something was off. That experience is baked into how we operate, not added on afterward.
Our approach to dementia care is specific, not generic.
Before a caregiver walks in the door, they’ve been briefed on your parent’s history, behaviors, and what tends to help or escalate. We match on experience with dementia, not just open schedule. The difference shows up in the first few hours of care.
We stay reachable when things change.
Dementia care rarely stays the same for long. When your parent’s needs shift, you call us and we answer. We adjust the care plan, talk through what you’re seeing, and figure out the next step with you. You won’t be routed to a voicemail tree.
We know Somers and Tolland County.
We understand the discharge process at Rockville General Hospital and what families here typically face when a parent comes home. We’ve worked with Somers families across different stages of memory loss and different living situations. This isn’t unfamiliar territory for us.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms, no pressure to commit. We want to understand your parent’s situation before we say anything else, because dementia care looks different for every family.
For dementia care, we don’t match on availability alone. We look at personality, communication style, experience with memory loss, and whatever you’ve told us about what your parent responds to. The right fit matters more here than in almost any other type of care.
Somers families in urgent situations don’t have to wait a week. If your parent just came home from Rockville General Hospital or something changed overnight, we move quickly. We know how to start care fast without cutting corners on the match.
Once care is underway, we check in regularly. If something changes with your parent’s condition or routine, you hear from us. You can also call us anytime. We don’t disappear after the first week.
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 is built around routine because routine is what helps most. That means consistent help with waking, hygiene, breakfast, and medications, followed by activity or conversation calibrated to where your parent is that day. The caregiver also handles light tasks around the home, watches for safety risks, and keeps notes on anything that seems different. At the end of the day, you hear about it if something notable happened.
In most cases we can have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and sometimes the same day if the situation is urgent. Discharge from Rockville General Hospital often happens faster than families expect, and we know the gap between "leaving the hospital" and "having a real plan at home" can be scary. Call us as soon as you know discharge is coming and we'll work from there.
We're a private-pay agency, so Medicare and most standard insurance plans don't cover our services. Long-term care insurance sometimes does, and we're happy to give you the documentation you need to submit a claim. It's worth a call to your insurance provider to ask. We'll be straightforward with you about costs from the start so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically works under a medical order and focuses on clinical tasks like wound care or skilled nursing. Our dementia caregivers provide non-medical support: daily routines, personal care, safety supervision, companionship, and family communication. For many people with memory loss, the non-medical support is where the real gap is, and it's what we do best. If your parent also has medical needs, we coordinate well with home health agencies so both kinds of care can happen at once.
Yes, and for dementia care this is one of the most important things we do. We ask you a lot of questions upfront about your parent's temperament, preferences, triggers, and history before we suggest a caregiver. Someone who is calm and unhurried is very different from someone who is efficient but brisk, and that difference matters enormously to a person with memory loss. If the first match doesn't feel right, we work to adjust it.
We keep a backup plan in place for every client so a sick day or schedule change doesn't leave your parent without care. Any substitute caregiver is briefed on your parent's routine and preferences before they arrive. We tell you in advance when a change is coming so your parent isn't caught off guard. For people with memory loss, even a small surprise can be disorienting, and we take that seriously.
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