Hospice Support Care in Mansfield, 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.
The hospice nurse came and went in under an hour, and then it was just your family again, sitting in a house that had gone very quiet. Maybe it happened after a visit to UConn Health Center, when the doctor finally used words you’d been dreading, and the drive back down Route 195 felt surreal. You didn’t expect to feel so alone in it. We work alongside hospice teams to fill the hours between nurse visits, so someone is actually there, steady and calm, for as long as your family needs.
Private Duty Aides serves families throughout Mansfield with Hospice Support Care that fits around what the hospice team is already doing. We’re not replacing anyone. We’re showing up for the in-between hours.
Hospice Support Care is about keeping someone comfortable, present, and not alone during the final chapter of their life at home. Our aides help with personal comfort tasks like repositioning, light hygiene, and keeping the environment calm. They sit with your person, read to them, hold a hand, or simply stay quiet nearby when that’s what’s needed. It’s not clinical work. It’s human presence, done with care.
Families in Mansfield often reach out to us after a hospitalization at UConn Health Center, when someone has been discharged home on hospice and the reality of round-the-clock needs sets in quickly. Our aides can be there mornings, overnights, weekends, or whenever your family most needs rest or relief. We coordinate with your existing hospice nurses so nothing falls through the cracks and so your family doesn’t have to explain the same situation twice to different people.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to Hospice Support Care is grounded in clinical understanding. Our founder has seen firsthand what families need at end of life, and that experience shapes how we screen, train, and place every aide in a hospice situation.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who sat with families at exactly these moments and understood what was actually missing. That background shapes every decision we make about how Hospice Support Care gets delivered.
Built around this service. We brief every aide before they walk through your door. They know the situation, the person, and what the hospice nurse has already communicated. We don’t send someone in cold and hope for the best.
We pick up the phone. When something shifts during hospice care, which it often does, you need to reach someone who knows your case. We stay reachable and we respond, not with a callback queue but with a real answer.
We know Mansfield and Tolland County. We understand how the discharge process works at UConn Health Center, we’re familiar with the geography of this area, and we’ve supported families across all parts of Mansfield through exactly this kind of care.
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 any given day, our aides help with comfort-focused tasks like repositioning, light hygiene, oral care, and keeping the space calm and tidy. They sit with the person, offer companionship, read aloud, or just remain present so no one is alone. They also watch for changes in condition and communicate with family members so you're always in the loop. It shifts based on the day and the person's needs, and our aides are comfortable adjusting as things change hour to hour.
We work quickly. In most cases we can place a caregiver within 48 hours of your call, and for families coming home from UConn Health Center who need support right away, we do our best to get someone there the same day. Call us as soon as you know discharge is happening, even if the date isn't confirmed yet. That head start helps us make a good match rather than just a fast one.
Our services are private pay, meaning we don't bill Medicare or insurance directly. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private-pay home care, so it's worth checking your policy. We'll give you a clear picture of costs upfront so there are no surprises. We know cost is a real consideration and we don't gloss over it.
A home health aide typically works under a medical plan of care and focuses on skilled or semi-skilled tasks like wound care or medication management. Our Hospice Support Care aides focus on comfort, presence, and the non-clinical support that makes a huge difference at end of life but that hospice nurses don't have time to provide during their limited visits. We work alongside your hospice team, not instead of them. Think of us as filling the hours they can't be there.
Yes, and we take this seriously. When you call, we ask about temperament, communication style, cultural background, and what kind of presence feels right for your family. A quiet, calm aide is very different from someone with a gentle sense of humor, and both can be the right fit depending on the person. We'd rather take a little extra time to match well than rush someone into the home who isn't quite right.
We keep backup coverage in place for exactly this reason. If your regular aide is sick or has an emergency, we contact you as soon as we know and work to send someone familiar with your case as quickly as possible. During hospice care, continuity really matters, so we document each situation well enough that a backup aide can step in without your family having to re-explain everything. You won't be left scrambling.
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