Hospice Support Care in Brooklyn, 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 were sitting in the parking lot of Day Kimball Hospital, engine running, reading the discharge papers for the third time because you couldn’t quite believe how fast things had moved. The doctor had said “comfort measures” and “hospice team,” and now it was on you to figure out what home actually looked like from here. Brooklyn is a small town. The roads are quiet. But quiet doesn’t mean easy, and nobody warned you how much work the nights would be.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving families across Connecticut, and we work alongside hospice teams to make sure someone is always there. Not hovering. Just present, steady, and paying attention.
Hospice Support Care means a trained caregiver is with your family member at home during the hours that matter most. We handle the hands-on comfort work: repositioning, light personal hygiene, keeping someone company through a restless night, sitting quietly when that’s what’s needed. The hospice nurse manages the medical side. We handle everything in between.
Day-to-day, that looks like making sure someone is never alone when they don’t want to be, handling light household tasks so the space stays calm, communicating with the hospice nursing team when we notice changes, and helping family members get a few hours of genuine rest. Families in Brooklyn often call us when the hospice nurse visits are just a few hours a week and the rest of the time falls on whoever is there. We fill that space so that “whoever is there” doesn’t have to carry it alone.
When someone comes home from Day Kimball after a hospitalization and the hospice plan is just getting started, the first days back can feel overwhelming. We’ve seen that transition many times, and we know how to step in without disrupting the routine a family is trying to hold together. We can start the same day if needed, and we stay flexible as the situation evolves.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our caregivers are trained to recognize what to report to the hospice team and what to handle calmly on their own. That distinction matters enormously when you’re dealing with end-of-life care at home in a small town like Brooklyn, far from a hospital and dependent on the people around you to stay alert.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Our founder was a working nurse who watched families try to navigate end-of-life care at home without the right support. She built this agency specifically to close that gap, and the training our caregivers receive reflects that.
Matched for this specific service
Hospice support requires a particular kind of steadiness. We match caregivers based on their experience with comfort care, not just their open availability. That difference shows up in the room.
We pick up the phone
When something changes in a hospice situation, it changes fast. You need to be able to call us and get a person, not a voicemail. We stay reachable because we know that’s part of the care.
We know Brooklyn and Windham County
We understand how Day Kimball Hospital handles discharge planning, what the roads look like in this part of Connecticut, and how families in these towns tend to operate. We’re not a big-city agency that happens to cover you. We belong here.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening. No intake forms, no hold music, no pressure to commit. We listen, ask a few questions, and tell you honestly what we can do and how fast.
For hospice support, we don’t just fill a schedule slot. We think about temperament, experience with end-of-life care, and what your family actually needs from the person who shows up.
Often same day for Brooklyn families in urgent situations. We’ve started care the same afternoon a family called from a hospital parking lot, and we’ll do it again.
You hear from us. When something shifts with the care, when a caregiver has an update, or when you just have a question at an odd hour, you can reach us. 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
On a typical day, your caregiver helps with personal comfort tasks like repositioning, light hygiene, and keeping the space calm and clean. They sit with your family member, talk when that helps and stay quiet when it doesn't, and keep a close eye on how things are changing. They coordinate with the hospice nursing team when anything needs to be flagged, and they help family members take a break without feeling guilty for stepping away. The goal is steady, attentive presence, not a checklist.
We can often start the same day you call, especially for families coming home from Day Kimball in an urgent situation. In most cases we have someone in place within 24 to 48 hours. Call us as soon as you know discharge is happening, even if you don't have an exact date yet, and we'll build the schedule around when your family actually needs it.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that reimburse for non-medical home care, and it's worth checking your policy if you have one. We'll give you clear pricing and honest answers so you can make the right decision for your situation.
A home health aide typically works under a medical order and focuses on specific clinical tasks. Our hospice support caregivers focus on comfort, presence, and the daily human side of care, working alongside your existing hospice nursing team rather than replacing it. We handle the hours that fall between nurse visits, the overnights, the long afternoons, so your family member is never just waiting alone. Think of us as the people who fill the space the medical team can't.
Yes, and we take that seriously. We ask about temperament, preferences, what kind of company your parent actually enjoys, and any specific concerns about the care situation. For hospice support especially, the right match matters more than a fast one. If the first fit isn't right, we adjust. You tell us and we fix it.
We keep backup coverage in place and we notify you before any change, not after. We don't leave a gap and hope you figure it out. If a substitute is needed, we brief them on your family's situation specifically so they're not walking in cold. Continuity matters enormously in hospice care, and we work hard to protect it.
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