Hospice Support Care in Bozrah, CT
Non-medical hospice support — homemaker-companion services that complement hospice nursing during a parent's final months at home.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You got the call from the hospice nurse on a Tuesday afternoon, standing in the parking lot off Route 163 after stopping for groceries, and by the time you walked through your parent’s front door you already knew the house felt different. The hospice team is doing everything they can, but they’re in and out, and the hours in between are long and quiet in a way that’s hard to sit with. You can’t be there every moment, and you shouldn’t have to carry this alone. That’s where we come in.
Hospice Support Care means we work alongside the hospice nurses and aides who are already part of your family’s care plan. We’re not here to replace them. We fill the hours they can’t cover: sitting with your parent so they’re never alone, helping them stay comfortable, reading aloud, holding a hand, keeping the room calm. It’s presence work, and it matters more than most people expect it to.
Day to day, that can look like help with light personal care, meal preparation, gentle mobility support, or simply being a steady and familiar face in the room. After a discharge from William W. Backus Hospital, families in Bozrah often need someone in place quickly, before a routine is established and before the family has caught its breath. We’re used to stepping in during that window and adapting as things change from one day to the next.
Families across all areas of Bozrah use this service in different ways. Some need overnight coverage so a spouse can sleep. Others need daytime hours so adult children can go to work without guilt. We listen to what you actually need before we suggest anything, and we build the schedule around your family, not ours.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, which means our approach to hospice support is shaped by someone who has been in that room, seen what families struggle with, and knows what kind of help actually makes a difference near the end of life.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a nurse who watched families struggle with exactly this, end-of-life care at home, trying to support a hospice team while keeping their parent comfortable and their family together. She built this agency around what those families actually needed, not what was easiest to provide.
Specific to this service. We don’t send a general aide and call it hospice support. The caregivers we place for this work have experience with end-of-life comfort care, they know how to communicate with hospice nurses, and they understand that the emotional weight in these homes is real and deserves to be handled carefully.
We stay reachable. When something changes, and with hospice care it often does, you need to be able to reach someone quickly. We answer. You won’t leave a voicemail and wonder when you’ll hear back. That reliability is something families in Bozrah have told us again and again is the thing they needed most.
Local to Bozrah. We know New London County. We know the discharge process at William W. Backus Hospital. We know how quickly families here sometimes need care arranged, and we’ve built our process to move at that pace when the situation calls for it.
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
On a typical day, your caregiver might sit with your parent and talk, read aloud, play music they like, or just be a calm presence in the room. They can help with light personal care, prepare small meals or snacks, tidy the immediate space, and communicate with the hospice nurse if something seems to have changed. The goal is comfort and presence, making sure your parent is never alone in a quiet house waiting for the next scheduled visit from the clinical team.
We can typically have a caregiver in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for families in urgent situations following a discharge from William W. Backus Hospital, we've arranged same-day care when it was truly needed. The sooner you reach out, the more time we have to make a thoughtful match rather than just filling the shift. Call us as soon as you know a discharge is coming and we'll start the process right away.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that reimburse for private-pay aides, and we're happy to provide documentation to support a claim if your policy allows it. If you're unsure what your policy covers, your insurance provider or the social worker on your hospice team is the best place to start that conversation.
A home health aide is typically part of a medically supervised care plan and focuses on clinical tasks like wound care or skilled assessments. Our hospice support caregivers provide non-medical comfort care, the kind of presence and help that fills the hours between clinical visits. They work alongside your hospice team rather than as part of it, handling the daily human needs that the medical staff doesn't have time to address on every visit.
Yes, and for hospice support we treat matching as one of the most important steps in the whole process. When you call, we ask about your parent's personality, their history, what calms them, what makes them anxious, and whether there are things a caregiver should know before walking through the door. We take that seriously because a poor match in these circumstances is genuinely hard on everyone, and a good one can make a real difference in how your parent experiences the time they have.
We always have backup coverage identified before it's needed. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we contact you as early as possible and have a qualified replacement ready. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own with a few hours' notice. During hospice care especially, we understand that gaps in coverage are not just inconvenient, they're genuinely stressful, and we do everything we can to prevent them.
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