Hospice Support Care in Goshen, 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 at the kitchen table on Perkins Road when the hospice nurse finished her visit, pulled on her coat, and said she’d be back Thursday. The door closed, and suddenly it was just you, the quiet of a Goshen November, and a person you love who needed more than you could give alone. That moment, right there, is exactly when families call us. We come in to help with the hours between hospice visits, so no one has to manage this alone.
Hospice support care is non-medical presence and assistance during the end-of-life period, working alongside the hospice team, not instead of them. We handle the daily tasks that fall outside a nurse’s visit: bathing, repositioning, light grooming, keeping someone comfortable, and simply being there so your family member is never alone for long stretches of the day or night. We follow the care direction set by the hospice nurse and communicate clearly when anything changes.
For Goshen families, this often looks like a caregiver coming in the morning to help with personal care, staying through the afternoon, and stepping back when family arrives in the evening. Some families need overnight coverage too, especially in the weeks when sleep is hard to come by and someone needs to be awake and present. After a discharge from Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, care can begin very quickly, sometimes within the same day the patient arrives home on Goshen’s quiet back roads.
What we offer isn’t just task completion. It’s steady, unhurried attention to the person in the bed, reading to them, holding a hand, keeping the room calm, and making sure family members can step outside or sleep without guilt. Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support reflects real clinical understanding of what comfort means at this stage, not a checklist built in a corporate office.
Nurse-founded. Private Duty Aides was started by a working nurse who watched families struggle to bridge the gap between hospice visits. She built this agency specifically to address that gap, which is why our caregivers understand end-of-life comfort care in a way that goes beyond basic training.
Matched to hospice support specifically. We don’t assign whoever is available. For hospice support, we look for caregivers with real experience in end-of-life settings, who know how to be calm and present, how to communicate with the hospice team, and how to handle the emotional weight of this work.
We pick up the phone. When something changes in a hospice situation, it can change fast. You need to reach someone who knows your case and can make decisions quickly. We keep our contact personal and responsive, not routed through a call center.
Local to Litchfield County. We know Goshen, we know the roads, and we know the discharge process at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. We’ve worked with Litchfield County families long enough to understand what they need and how quickly they may need 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
A typical day depends on the stage of illness and what the hospice nurse has outlined, but it usually includes personal care in the morning, help with repositioning for comfort, light housekeeping, and steady presence throughout the day. Our caregivers stay attentive to changes in breathing, comfort, or mood and communicate those observations to the family and the hospice team. They also provide calm companionship, reading aloud, playing quiet music, or simply sitting close. The goal is that no one is left alone and nothing feels rushed.
In most cases, we can have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for families in urgent situations, same-day starts are possible. Charlotte Hungerford Hospital discharges can happen quickly, and we're set up to move at that pace. Call us as early as you know the discharge is coming, even if the date isn't confirmed yet, so we can have a match ready to go.
Private Duty Aides is a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. The hospice benefit through Medicare covers the clinical team, including nurses, social workers, and chaplains, but it doesn't typically cover the kind of extended daily aide time that families actually need. Our services are paid for directly by families, and we're transparent about pricing from the first conversation.
A home health aide typically works under a medical plan of care and provides skilled-adjacent support after illness or surgery, with visits that are usually short and task-focused. Hospice support care is about sustained, patient presence during the end-of-life period, often for several hours at a time, with an emphasis on comfort, companionship, and working alongside the hospice clinical team. Our caregivers aren't providing medical treatment, but they're trained to recognize changes and to support the person's dignity and comfort in a way that goes beyond task completion.
Yes, and for hospice support care, we treat matching as one of the most important things we do. We ask about your family member's background, what they like, what makes them feel safe, and what kind of presence feels right in the room. We also ask about your family's communication style, because this is a time when the caregiver and the family need to work well together too. If a match doesn't feel right, we make a change.
We keep backup coverage arrangements in place precisely because end-of-life care can't have gaps. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we contact you directly and arrange a substitute, someone who has been briefed on your family member's needs, not a stranger walking in cold. We know that consistency matters deeply during this time, so we minimize disruption as much as possible and stay in communication every step of the way.
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