Hospice Support Care in Easton, 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.
It was the middle of the night when you realized the hospice nurse couldn’t stay, and someone still needed to be there. Maybe you were making the drive back from your parent’s house on Sport Hill Road, the dark stretching out around you, knowing the next shift started in a few hours and you hadn’t slept. Easton is a quiet town, and that quiet can feel very heavy when you’re carrying this kind of vigil alone. We started Private Duty Aides to fill exactly that gap, the hours between hospice visits when family needs to rest and someone steady still needs to be present.
Hospice Support Care means we send a trained aide to be physically present with your family member during the end-of-life period, working alongside the hospice nurses and social workers already involved. We handle the day-to-day comfort tasks: positioning, light personal care, hydration support, reading aloud, sitting quietly. We make sure someone is always in the room when family members need to step away, eat, or sleep.
Families in Easton often come to us after a discharge from St. Vincent’s Medical Center, when the transition home happens fast and the schedule of hospice nurse visits doesn’t cover every hour. We step into those gaps without getting in the way of the clinical team. You tell us the routine that’s been established, and we follow it. Our role is to support, not to lead, and we understand that distinction.
Every area of Easton that we serve, from the neighborhoods near Easton Center to the more rural stretches off Black Rock Turnpike, carries the same need: a calm, consistent presence that makes the person at home feel less alone. We’re not trying to replace family. We’re here so family can actually be family, instead of running on empty trying to cover everything.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our aides working Hospice Support Care shifts are briefed specifically on what end-of-life care looks like in practice, not just in a training manual. That grounding changes how they show up.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating end-of-life care at home were missing. That experience shaped everything about how we hire, train, and brief aides for hospice support shifts.
Built for this service specifically
Hospice Support Care requires a different kind of aide than a routine companion shift. We brief every caregiver before they arrive on your family’s specific situation, the hospice team involved, and what comfort looks like for your family member right now.
We stay reachable
When something changes during Hospice Support Care, which it often does, you need to reach a real person. We answer. You won’t get a call center or a portal message. You get us.
Local to Easton and Fairfield County
We know the discharge process at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, the way care transitions work in this county, and what families here are typically dealing with. That local knowledge shortens the learning curve when time is short.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening. No intake forms, no long questionnaires. We listen to the situation as it actually is, and we ask only what we need to help.
For Hospice Support Care, matching matters more than availability. We consider experience with end-of-life care, temperament, and the specific needs your family has described. It’s not just who’s free.
For urgent situations, we work to start the same day. Easton families going through this don’t have time to wait weeks for an intake appointment. We move quickly when it counts.
We stay in contact through the whole process. If something shifts, you call us and we adjust. You won’t be left figuring out changes on your own.
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, our aide arrives and checks in with whoever is already there, either family or the hospice nurse, before settling into a supporting role. That might mean sitting with your family member, helping with positioning and comfort, offering water or light nourishment, reading aloud, or simply being a quiet presence in the room. We follow the routine the hospice clinical team has established rather than introducing our own agenda. The goal is continuity and calm, not activity for its own sake.
We can often have care in place the same day you call us, depending on the time and the specifics of the situation. For families coming home from St. Vincent's Medical Center, we know that discharge can move faster than expected, and we try to match that pace. Call us as soon as you know the discharge is happening, even if the date isn't confirmed. The earlier we talk, the smoother the handoff tends to be.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. The hospice benefit through Medicare covers clinical hospice services, like nursing visits, social work, and chaplain support, but it doesn't cover the kind of around-the-clock aide presence that families often need in between those visits. That's where private-pay support like ours fills the gap. Some long-term care insurance policies do reimburse for private home care, so it's worth checking your policy.
A home health aide typically works under a medical care plan, performing tasks ordered by a physician and reimbursed through insurance or Medicare. Our Hospice Support Care aides are non-medical, meaning they're not administering medications or performing clinical assessments. What they do is provide consistent human presence, comfort-focused personal care, and support for the family during an emotionally demanding time. The two can work alongside each other, and often do.
Yes, and for Hospice Support Care especially, we take this seriously. When you call us, we'll ask about your family member's temperament, what brings them comfort, whether they prefer someone talkative or quietly present, and any specific routines the hospice team has put in place. We use that information to match, not just to fill a shift. If the first match doesn't feel right, you tell us and we adjust. We'd rather get it right than have you settle.
We don't leave you to figure out coverage on your own. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we find a backup and we let you know in advance whenever possible. For Hospice Support Care situations, we treat continuity as a priority, and we try to send someone who has already been briefed on your family's situation rather than sending a stranger cold. We understand that unfamiliar faces during this time can be disruptive, and we try to minimize that.
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