Dementia Care in Sterling, 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 stood in the kitchen on a Tuesday morning and watched your dad try to remember where the coffee cups live. He’s lived in that house for thirty years. You didn’t say anything, because what do you say? That moment, the quiet worry that followed you back up Route 14 on the drive home through Sterling, is exactly why families call us.
Memory loss changes slowly, then quickly. The challenge isn’t just the forgetting. It’s the safety, the wandering, the agitation when routine breaks, and the weight you carry trying to manage it from a distance. We provide non-medical dementia care at home so your parent stays somewhere familiar while you get real support.
We’re a nurse-founded agency serving families across Windham County, and we match caregivers who have specific experience with memory care, not just whoever’s available.
Dementia care at home means a trained caregiver comes to your parent’s house, learns their routine, and helps hold that routine steady. That includes help with meals, personal hygiene, medication reminders, gentle redirection when confusion sets in, and simply being a calm, consistent presence. Consistency matters more with memory loss than with almost any other condition, and we build care around that fact.
For Sterling families, the day-to-day needs usually include morning routines that need extra time and patience, safe supervision throughout the day to prevent wandering or accidents, and companionship that keeps your parent engaged without overwhelming them. After a hospital stay at Day Kimball Hospital, the transition home can be especially disorienting for someone with dementia, and having a familiar caregiver in place before discharge makes a real difference. We coordinate around those discharge timelines when families give us a heads-up.
Our agency was founded by a working nurse who spent years watching what families actually needed after a diagnosis, and that clinical background shapes how we train, match, and supervise caregivers for memory care specifically. We know the warning signs, the patterns, and when something needs a second set of eyes.
Nurse-founded. Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families managing memory loss actually needed: safety awareness, routine, patience, and someone who understands what’s medically significant. That background is built into everything we do.
Matched for dementia specifically. We don’t assign whoever’s free. We brief caregivers on your parent’s history, triggers, and preferences before the first visit. Experience with memory care isn’t optional here, it’s the starting point.
We stay reachable. When something shifts, and with dementia something always does, you call us and we answer. We don’t route you through a call center or ask you to leave a message and wait.
Local to Windham County. We know Sterling, we know the discharge process at Day Kimball Hospital, and we understand the particular challenges of arranging care in a smaller, more rural community where options aren’t always obvious.
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, meal preparation, medication reminders, and gentle redirection if confusion comes up. The caregiver keeps your parent engaged with activities that feel familiar, monitors for safety throughout the day, and maintains the structure that memory loss makes so important. It's not medical treatment. It's practical, steady support that makes staying home possible.
If you call us while your parent is still admitted, we can often have a caregiver in place the day they come home. The transition from Day Kimball back to a Sterling home is one of the most disorienting moments for someone with dementia, and having continuity from day one really matters. We coordinate with your family's timeline, not a standard intake window.
We're a private-pay agency, so Medicare and most insurance plans don't cover our services. Long-term care insurance sometimes does, depending on your policy, and it's worth calling your provider to check. We'll give you a clear picture of costs upfront so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically provides skilled medical care ordered by a doctor, like wound care or therapy, and is usually covered by Medicare for a limited period. Our dementia caregivers provide non-medical support: routine, safety, companionship, and personal care. The two can work alongside each other, and many families use both during different stages of the disease.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before the first visit, we talk with your family about your parent's history, what calms them, what agitates them, and what their daily life looks like. We match on temperament and experience, not just schedule. If the first match isn't right, we find someone better rather than asking you to just make it work.
We cover it. We don't leave you scrambling or cancel a shift without a replacement. When a substitute is needed, we brief them on your parent's routine and preferences before they arrive, because showing up cold to a dementia client's home without context doesn't work. You'll hear from us before any change, not after.
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Private Duty Aides — Sterling, CT
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