Hospice Support Care in East Granby, 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 with your father in the back bedroom of the farmhouse off Newgate Road, waiting for the hospice nurse to arrive, and you realized you couldn’t leave to pick up your kids from school. Someone needed to stay. That’s not a small thing, and it’s not a failure. It’s just the reality of what end-of-life care at home in East Granby actually asks of a family. We help fill that gap so someone you trust is always there.
Private Duty Aides provides hospice support care for families across East Granby and Hartford County. We work alongside your hospice team, not instead of them, handling the continuous presence, the comfort, and the quiet work that keeps your family intact through the hardest stretch.
When you’re ready to talk, we’re here. No intake forms, no sales call.
Hospice support care is non-medical, companion-level care that runs alongside whatever hospice agency your family is already using. Our aides sit with your parent, help with personal comfort, keep the home calm and tidy, and make sure someone is always present so family members can sleep, step out, or just breathe. We’re not replacing nurses or therapists. We’re filling the hours between their visits.
On a typical day in an East Granby home, that looks like: preparing light meals or soft foods, helping with repositioning and comfort, reading aloud or just sitting quietly, and keeping the environment peaceful. When family members are present, we step back. When they can’t be there, we hold the space. Families whose parents come home from Hartford Hospital under a hospice plan often call us the same week, sometimes the same day, because the gap between discharge and consistent family coverage is real and immediate.
Families in East Granby often need someone overnight, or through the midday stretch when adult children are working and the hospice nurse won’t return until evening. We build the schedule around those real gaps, not a standardized package. Every situation is different, and we treat it that way.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that background matters here more than almost anywhere else in our service line. Our aides are briefed on hospice protocols, understand how to communicate clearly with the clinical team, and know when to call and when to simply be still.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating end-of-life care at home were missing. The clinical understanding is built into how we hire, brief, and support every aide we place.
Specific to hospice support. We don’t treat this like a standard companion care placement. Aides assigned to hospice families are selected for temperament, experience with end-of-life settings, and the ability to coordinate quietly with clinical staff without needing direction.
We answer when you call. When something shifts in hospice care, it shifts fast. You shouldn’t have to leave a message and wait. We stay reachable because we know the moments that require a real answer can’t wait until the next business day.
We know Hartford County. We understand the discharge process at Hartford Hospital, we know the geography of East Granby, and we’ve worked with families throughout this county. That context matters when we’re placing someone in your home.
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 aide might help with repositioning for comfort, prepare soft foods or drinks, keep the room calm and quiet, read aloud if your parent wants company, or simply sit nearby so your parent isn't alone. They'll handle light tidying and communicate anything notable to you or the hospice nurse. The work is often gentle and unhurried, which is exactly what this stage of care calls for.
We can typically place a caregiver within 48 hours of your call, and for urgent situations we often have someone in place the same day. When a parent comes home from Hartford Hospital under a hospice plan, the gap between arrival home and the first hospice nurse visit can feel very long. We try to close that gap as quickly as possible. Call us as soon as you know the discharge date, even if it's still a few days out.
Our hospice support care is private pay, which means it isn't billed through Medicare, Medicaid, or most insurance plans. Medicare does cover hospice medical services through a certified hospice agency, but the continuous companion-level presence that families need in between clinical visits typically falls outside that coverage. Some long-term care insurance policies may cover a portion of private home care, so it's worth checking your policy. We're transparent about costs from the first conversation.
Home health aides typically work under a medical plan of care and focus on skilled or clinical tasks. Our hospice support aides are non-medical, meaning they provide comfort, presence, light personal care, and companionship, but they don't administer medications or perform clinical assessments. They work alongside your hospice agency's nurses and aides, filling the hours when clinical staff aren't present. Think of it as consistent human presence, not medical care.
Yes, and for hospice support we take this more seriously than almost any other placement we make. We ask about your parent's background, temperament, what calms them, what irritates them, and what kind of presence they respond to. Then we match accordingly. A quiet, private person needs a different kind of aide than someone who wants company and conversation. If the first match doesn't feel right, we'll adjust.
We keep backup coverage available and we don't leave families without support, especially in hospice situations where gaps in presence are not an option. If your regular aide is sick or unavailable, we contact you directly and arrange a replacement before the scheduled shift starts. We also brief backup aides on your parent's situation so they're not walking in cold. You'll hear from us, not find out by default.
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