Hospice Support Care in Enfield, 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, and by the time you pulled into your parent’s driveway off Moody Road you already knew the weeks ahead were going to be different. The house was quiet in a way that felt heavy, and the hospice team had given you a lot of information but not a lot of hands. That gap, the hours between nurse visits when your parent needs a calm presence and you still have work and kids and a drive back to wherever you live, is exactly where we come in.
Private Duty Aides provides hospice support care throughout Enfield and the surrounding Hartford County communities. We work alongside your hospice nurse, not around them, handling the comfort and companionship so the clinical team can focus on what only they can do.
Hospice support care means a trained aide is present in the home providing comfort, keeping your parent company, helping with gentle repositioning, offering a sip of water, reading aloud, or simply sitting close. It covers personal care tasks that keep someone comfortable, like light hygiene assistance and mouth care, along with light tidying so the space around them stays calm. The goal is that no one is ever alone unless they want to be.
For Enfield families, this service often becomes essential in the days following a transition home from Hartford Hospital, when the medical picture is clear but the daily support structure hasn’t been figured out yet. Families in all parts of Enfield, whether closer to Enfield Street and the town center or out near the Scantic River watershed, have found that having a consistent aide alongside the hospice team changes the experience entirely. It gives family members permission to rest, eat, and be present as family rather than as exhausted caregivers.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, we built this service around what nurses actually see happen in the home. We know how to support a hospice care plan without interfering with it, and our aides are selected specifically for their ability to stay calm and warm in hard moments.
Nurse-founded, built for this moment.
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand how families navigating end-of-life at home needed more than a checklist. The way we hire, train, and match aides for hospice support reflects what someone who has sat at a bedside actually knows.
We treat hospice support as its own specialty.
We don’t send a general aide and hope for the best. We brief every caregiver on the specific situation before they walk through the door, and we match based on experience with end-of-life care, not just open schedule slots.
You can reach us when things change.
In hospice situations, things can shift quickly and unexpectedly. When that happens, you need to be able to call and get a real person. We stay reachable, and we take those calls seriously.
We know Enfield and Hartford County.
We understand how Hartford Hospital discharges work, how quickly families can find themselves needing help once they get home to Enfield, and what the resources and gaps look like in this part of the county. We’re not figuring this out as we go.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening. No intake forms to fill out online, no pressure, no sales pitch. We listen to your situation, ask a few questions, and give you honest information about what we can offer.
For hospice support care specifically, matching matters more than availability. We look for aides with experience in end-of-life settings, the right temperament, and a schedule that fits your parent’s rhythms and needs.
We know time is different during this period. For urgent Enfield families, same-day starts are often possible. We won’t make you wait a week to get help that’s needed now.
Check-ins happen regularly, not just when there’s a problem. If something changes at home or with the hospice plan, we adjust. You’ll never be left wondering what comes next.
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 arrives at an agreed time and picks up wherever comfort is needed: sitting with your parent, helping with light hygiene, keeping them hydrated, changing their position if needed, or just talking quietly. They can also do light tidying in the room and keep family members updated on how things are going. The focus is always on the person in the bed, not a task list. Every day looks a little different depending on where your parent is in their journey.
We can usually have a caregiver in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for urgent situations we often manage same-day placement. Hartford Hospital discharges can move quickly, and we know how to respond at that pace. If you're still in the discharge planning stage, calling us early gives us time to have the right match ready before your parent gets home. You don't need to have everything figured out before you reach out.
Private Duty Aides operates on a private-pay basis, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Medicare's hospice benefit does cover the clinical hospice team, but it doesn't include the kind of extended companion and personal care hours that families often need in addition. Many families pay out of pocket, use long-term care insurance benefits, or draw on savings. We'll give you straightforward pricing information when you call so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically follows a care plan set by a doctor or nurse and focuses on specific clinical or rehabilitative tasks. Our hospice support aides work alongside the existing hospice team rather than directing care themselves. Their role is presence, comfort, and personal support during the hours when the hospice nurse isn't there. Because we're nurse-founded, we understand exactly where that line is and how to make both teams work well together.
Yes, and we take that seriously. For hospice support especially, a poor personality match creates friction at the worst possible time. When you call, we ask about your parent's temperament, their preferences, what comforts them, and what might set them on edge. We use that to choose a caregiver who genuinely fits, not just one who has an open schedule. If the first match doesn't feel right, we'll make a change without making you feel like you're causing trouble.
We keep backup coverage available and we notify you as early as possible if there's a scheduling change. We won't simply not show up and leave you to figure it out. In a hospice situation, we understand that a no-show isn't just inconvenient, it can genuinely destabilize a family's day. Any substitute caregiver gets briefed on your parent's situation before they arrive, so they're not walking in cold.
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