Dementia Care in Union, 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 a few months ago, maybe when your dad got turned around driving home on Route 190 after forty years on those same roads. Now you’re calling more, stopping by more, and still lying awake wondering what happens on the days you can’t be there. Union is a small, quiet town, and that quiet can feel very loud when someone you care about is home alone and forgetting things they used to know cold.
We work with families right here in Tolland County who are in exactly that place. Not yet at the point of a facility, but well past the point where things are fine on their own. A steady caregiver, a familiar face, the same routine every day. That’s what actually helps, and that’s what we provide.
Dementia care at home means showing up at the same time every morning, using the same words, following the same sequence. Consistency isn’t a nice-to-have with memory loss, it’s the thing that reduces anxiety and keeps the day from unraveling. Our caregivers help with meals, personal hygiene, medication reminders, and getting around the home safely, but the real work is in how they do all of that, calmly, predictably, without rushing.
For Union families, the need often gets urgent after a health event or a hospitalization. When someone comes home after a stay at Johnson Memorial Hospital, they’re in a familiar place but sometimes more disoriented than before. Having a caregiver step in right at discharge, someone who already knows the routine and the person, makes the transition steadier and keeps families from scrambling on their own. We work closely with discharge timelines so care can start the day someone gets home.
Families across all areas of Union typically need help with the things that fall through the cracks: making sure a parent eats, making sure they don’t wander, making sure the stove is off. They need someone who will notice when something is off and say something. Our caregivers are trained to watch for changes and communicate them to the family directly, not in a report a week later.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that shapes how we approach dementia care specifically. It means we screen for caregivers who understand the behavioral side of memory loss, not just the physical tasks, and it means our matching process takes personality, communication style, and patience into real account.
Nurse-founded
Our founder worked as a nurse and watched families trying to manage memory loss without the right support. She built this agency around what those families actually needed: routine, patience, honest communication, and a caregiver who understands more than just tasks.
Specific to dementia care
We brief every caregiver on your parent before they walk in the door. Triggers, preferences, what calms them, what doesn’t. Experience with memory loss is a requirement for this work, not a bonus.
We stay reachable
Dementia care changes. Behavior shifts, new challenges come up, and when they do you need to be able to reach someone fast. We don’t route you to a call center. You get a real person who knows your family’s situation.
We know Union and Tolland County
We understand the discharge process at Johnson Memorial Hospital and how quickly things can get complicated when a family in Union is suddenly managing post-hospital care on their own. We’ve been through this with families here before.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms, no pressure, no pitch. We listen to your specific situation and ask questions that actually help us understand what your family needs.
For dementia care, we don’t match on availability alone. We look at personality, experience with memory loss, and how the caregiver handles the harder moments, confusion, repetition, resistance to help.
Often the same day for Union families in an urgent situation. If your parent just came home from Johnson Memorial and you need someone there tomorrow morning, we work to make that happen.
You don’t hear from us once at the start and then wonder. We check in regularly, and when something changes with your parent’s care, you can reach us directly. Someone who knows your family picks up.
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 hygiene, getting dressed, preparing meals, and making sure medications are taken at the right time. The caregiver keeps the day structured and predictable, because that structure is what reduces confusion and agitation. They also provide companionship, light activity, and quiet supervision to make sure the home stays safe. At the end of a shift they'll communicate anything notable to you directly.
In most cases we can have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call. For families in Union coming home from Johnson Memorial Hospital, we know that the first days after discharge are the most disorienting, and we treat that timing as urgent. If you know the discharge date in advance, reach out early so we can do the matching before your parent gets home.
We are a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or standard health insurance. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover non-medical home care, so it's worth checking your specific policy. We're honest about this up front because we'd rather you know exactly what you're working with before you make any decisions.
A home health aide from a Medicare-certified agency typically provides short-term, medically-focused visits, often tied to a specific skilled nursing need after a hospitalization. Our dementia care is non-medical, ongoing, and built around the daily rhythm of someone living with memory loss. We're there for the long stretch, not just the recovery window. The focus is consistency, routine, and family communication rather than clinical procedures.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before a caregiver starts, we talk with you about your parent's personality, history, what tends to calm them, and what tends to set them off. We use that to find someone whose temperament is a real fit, not just someone who is available. If the match isn't right after the first few days, we'll fix it.
We keep backup coverage in place and communicate with you before any gap happens, not after. When a substitute is needed, we brief them the same way we briefed the primary caregiver so your parent's routine stays as intact as possible. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own, and we don't send someone unfamiliar without warning.
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Private Duty Aides — Union, CT
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