Hospice Support Care in Morris, 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, and then the house on Bantam Lake Road went quiet again. You sat in the kitchen knowing someone needed to be there through the night, and that someone couldn’t always be you. That moment, the one where you realized you couldn’t do every shift and still hold yourself together, is exactly why families in Morris call us.
We provide non-medical support alongside the hospice team already caring for your family member. Our aides handle the presence, the comfort, the small physical needs that arise between nurse visits, so the people who love this person can just be there, not working.
Hospice Support Care means having a trained, steady aide present in the home during one of the hardest stretches a family goes through. We work alongside the hospice nurses and social workers already on your case. We don’t replace them. We fill the hours between their visits, providing hands-on comfort, positioning help, personal hygiene assistance, and quiet, grounded company for the person in your care.
For families in Morris, this often comes right after a discharge from Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, when someone has come home to spend their final weeks or months in a familiar place. The transition from hospital care to home can feel abrupt. Families find themselves managing more than they expected, with less support than the hospital provided. That’s the gap we step into, calmly and without disruption to whatever hospice routines are already in place.
In the smaller, quieter towns of Litchfield County, including all areas of Morris, there’s rarely a care facility right around the corner. Staying home is often the only option that feels right, and families need an aide who can work with that reality, in a modest house, on a rural road, without fanfare. We’re used to that. We show up, we stay, and we keep the person comfortable.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support is built on clinical awareness even when the work itself is non-medical. Our aides know how to communicate a change in condition clearly to the hospice team, and they know when to step back and let a family moment happen without interruption.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families navigate end-of-life care at home with inadequate non-medical support. She built this service around what she saw families actually needing: consistency, presence, and aides who understand what hospice workers are managing.
Matched to this service. Hospice support isn’t a general assignment. We brief every aide on the specific situation before their first shift, including the hospice team’s plan, the family’s preferences, and any physical comfort details that matter. They arrive prepared, not guessing.
We stay reachable. When something changes, and in hospice care something always eventually does, you should be able to reach someone who knows your case. You call us, and we answer. We don’t route you through an anonymous line.
We know this county. We understand the discharge process at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, we know the roads and the distances in Litchfield County, and we’ve worked with Morris families long enough to know that rural home care requires a different kind of reliability than care in a denser area.
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 arrives at the scheduled time and takes over personal comfort tasks: repositioning, light hygiene, mouth care, keeping the environment calm and clean. They sit with your family member, respond to whatever comes up, and make sure your person isn't alone. If the hospice nurse calls with updated instructions, the aide follows them and communicates back clearly. The goal is steady, gentle presence that reduces suffering and keeps everything running between clinical visits.
We can typically start within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for families coming home from Charlotte Hungerford in urgent situations, we do our best to arrange same-day coverage. The discharge process from the hospital can move faster than families expect, so call us as early as you know the timeline. We'd rather have everything lined up and waiting than scramble at the last minute when your person is already home.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Some long-term care insurance policies do reimburse for this type of non-medical aide support, and it's worth checking your policy. We can provide you with the documentation you'd need to submit a claim. We're straightforward about what things cost, and we don't hide fees.
A home health aide typically provides skilled or semi-skilled medical support and is usually ordered through a clinical plan of care. Our hospice support aides are non-medical. They provide hands-on personal comfort, companionship, and presence, and they work alongside the clinical hospice team rather than replacing it. The two roles complement each other. The hospice nurse handles the medical management, and our aide handles the hours of care in between.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before we place anyone, we talk with you about your family member: their background, their temperament, whether they're comfortable with quiet or prefer some gentle conversation, any physical needs that require particular experience. We then choose from aides whose personalities and experience fit that picture. If the match isn't right after the first shift, you tell us and we adjust. We don't lock you into something that isn't working.
We keep backup coverage arranged for exactly this situation. If your regular aide is sick or has an emergency, we contact you as early as possible and send someone we've already briefed on your family member's situation. We don't send a stranger with no context. During hospice care especially, continuity matters, and we plan around gaps rather than reacting to them after the fact.
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