Hospice Support Care in Newington, 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 somewhere around 2 a.m. when you realized the hospice nurse who visits a few times a week simply can’t be there every hour your father needs someone. He’s home on Mill Street, the house he’s lived in for thirty years, and that’s exactly where he wants to stay. You want to honor that. You also know you can’t do it alone, and you’ve started to feel the weight of that in your bones.
Private Duty Aides supports families in Newington who are walking through this season. We work alongside the hospice team, not in place of them, filling in the hours between visits so your father is never alone, never uncomfortable, and never without a calm and steady presence.
You don’t need to have all the answers before you call us. Most families don’t.
Hospice Support Care is non-medical, in-home assistance that runs alongside your existing hospice program. Our aides are there for the hours the hospice nurse isn’t: sitting with your family member, helping with personal comfort, reading aloud, holding a hand, making sure they’re not alone in the middle of the afternoon or the middle of the night. We coordinate directly with your hospice team so nothing falls through the cracks.
Day to day, that looks different for every family in Newington. For some, it’s a caregiver who comes each morning to help with hygiene and positioning, then stays through lunch. For others, it’s overnight presence so the family can sleep without listening for every sound. Many families we work with come to us right after a discharge from Hartford Hospital, when the transition home is raw and the routine hasn’t settled yet. We step in quickly and stay consistent.
Families across Newington, whether near the town green, over on Cedar Street, or anywhere else in town, often tell us the hardest part is not knowing who to call at 11 p.m. when something shifts. We try to be that answer. Our aides don’t replace your hospice nurse, but they make sure someone is always present and paying attention.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support starts from clinical understanding. Our founder has seen, firsthand, what an end-of-life journey at home actually requires, and that shapes who we hire, how we train, and how we match caregivers to the families who need them most.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a nurse who worked directly with families going through exactly what you’re going through now: end-of-life care at home, long nights, hard decisions. That foundation shapes every part of how we operate, not just our marketing language.
Built around this service. When we match a caregiver for hospice support, we brief them carefully. We learn about your family member’s history, their comfort preferences, their fears, and how they communicate. We don’t send someone who has never worked in end-of-life settings and hope for the best.
Reachable when it matters. Care at this stage doesn’t run on business hours. When something shifts at 10 p.m. and you need to talk to a person, you can reach us. We don’t disappear between invoices.
Local to Hartford County. We know the discharge process at Hartford Hospital, we know how Newington families navigate this, and we’ve built relationships here. This isn’t a call center somewhere else routing you to a stranger. We know this county.
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 entirely on where your family member is in their journey and what they need in that moment. Our aide might help with repositioning and comfort in the morning, sit and talk or read quietly in the afternoon, prepare a light meal or cup of tea, and simply be a calm presence through the evening hours. The goal isn't to run through a checklist. It's to make sure the person in your care is comfortable, safe, and not alone.
In most cases, we can have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call. For urgent situations following a discharge from Hartford Hospital, we often arrange same-day starts. We know that the days immediately after coming home are often the hardest, and we don't want you to spend them scrambling. Call us as early in that process as you can, even before the discharge date is set, and we'll be ready.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we're not billed through Medicare, Medicaid, or most insurance plans. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private-pay home care services, so it's worth checking your policy. We're upfront about this from the first call because we'd rather you know exactly what you're working with than find out later.
A home health aide is typically a medical role, often ordered by a doctor and covered through Medicare, focused on skilled tasks like wound care or monitoring vitals. Hospice Support Care from Private Duty Aides is non-medical. We focus on comfort, presence, personal care assistance, and making sure your family member isn't alone during this time. We work alongside your hospice medical team, not instead of them. Think of us as the consistent, around-the-clock human presence that the medical visits can't provide.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before we place anyone, we ask you about your parent as a person, not just their medical situation. Do they prefer quiet or conversation? Do they have strong opinions about how things are done around the house? Are they anxious, or do they tend to be private? We use all of that to find the right fit. A mismatch at this stage of life causes real distress, and we work hard to avoid it.
We keep a backup plan in place for every client. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we contact you right away and send someone we've already vetted for this type of care. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own. At this stage, consistency matters, and we make sure any substitute caregiver is briefed on your family member before they walk in the door.
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