Hospice Support Care in Prospect, 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 had come and gone hours earlier, and the house on Waterbury Road felt very quiet after she left. You sat with your father, unsure what to do with your hands, knowing the hospice team would be back tomorrow but that tonight was just the two of you. That gap between visits, and the weight of filling it, is exactly where we come in. We’re Private Duty Aides, and we work alongside hospice teams right here in Prospect to make sure no one is sitting in that silence alone.
Families in Prospect call us when the medical piece is covered but the human piece still needs tending. We help with comfort, presence, personal care between nurse visits, and with keeping family members close without burning them out.
Hospice support care means having someone present and capable in the home during the hours a hospice nurse isn’t there. We handle personal care like bathing, repositioning, and mouth care. We sit with your family member so they’re never alone, and we keep the environment calm and comfortable. When words aren’t needed, we know that too.
Day to day, that might look like a morning aide who helps with hygiene and breakfast, or an overnight caregiver who monitors comfort and calls you if anything shifts. For families in Prospect who’ve had a recent discharge from Waterbury Hospital and are transitioning home under hospice, we can often start care within 24 to 48 hours of that transition. We coordinate directly with the hospice team so nothing falls through the gap between their visits and ours.
Families across Prospect often need someone to help them stay present without being consumed. When a son or daughter is the primary family contact, they shouldn’t have to be the only one providing physical care around the clock. We take that on, so the family can just be family during this time.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support isn’t guesswork. Our founder understood firsthand what hospice nurses need from a companion aide and what families actually fall apart without, so that’s what we built our training and matching around.
Nurse-founded
Our founder was a working nurse who saw exactly what families going through end-of-life care at home needed and weren’t getting. She built this agency to fill that gap, and hospice support is at the center of that mission.
Matched to this service
Not every caregiver is right for hospice work, and we’re honest about that. We match for experience, calm under pressure, and the ability to support a hospice nurse’s plan, not just fill a shift.
We stay reachable
When something changes, and it often does, you need a real person to pick up. We don’t route you through a call center. You reach someone who knows your family’s situation.
Local to Prospect
We know New Haven County, we understand how discharges from Waterbury Hospital typically work, and we’ve worked with families all across Prospect. That local familiarity matters when time is short.
How it works
You don’t fill out a form and wait. You call, we pick up, and we listen to where things actually stand. No pressure, no sales pitch.
For hospice support specifically, we think about temperament, experience with end-of-life care, and the kind of presence your family needs, not just who’s available on the schedule.
Often the same day for Prospect families in urgent situations. If you’re coming home from Waterbury Hospital under a hospice plan, we can move quickly.
You’re not handed off and forgotten. We check in regularly, and if something changes with your situation, you call us directly and we figure it out with you.
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 might include help with bathing and mouth care in the morning, light meal preparation if the person is still eating, repositioning for comfort, and simply sitting nearby so they're not alone. We follow the hospice care plan and communicate with the nurse about anything we observe. In the evening or overnight, the focus shifts to monitoring comfort and making sure the family gets some rest. We adjust as each day changes, because with hospice, no two days are quite the same.
For families coming home from Waterbury Hospital under a hospice plan, we can often arrange care within 24 to 48 hours of discharge, and sometimes the same day when the situation is urgent. We ask that you call us as soon as you know the discharge is coming so we have time to make a good match rather than just a fast one. The transition from hospital to home is one of the most difficult moments, and we want to be ready before you walk through the door.
Private Duty Aides is a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Medicare hospice benefits do cover certain nursing and aide services through the hospice provider, but those hours are often limited and don't cover all the time a family needs support. Many families use our services to fill the hours the hospice team isn't present. We're happy to talk through what that looks like financially when you call.
A home health aide typically works under a medical plan focused on recovery, rehab, or managing a chronic condition. Hospice support care is different in purpose. The focus is comfort, dignity, and presence rather than treatment or improvement. Our caregivers are matched specifically for end-of-life support, which calls for a particular kind of steadiness and patience. They work alongside the hospice nursing team, not in place of it.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When you call us, we ask real questions about who your parent is, not just what tasks they need help with. We want to know if they're a talker or prefer quiet, whether they're private about personal care, and what kind of presence would feel comforting rather than intrusive. We make the match with all of that in mind. If the first caregiver isn't quite right, we'll find a better fit.
We maintain backup coverage so that a gap in your regular caregiver's schedule doesn't mean a gap in care. We notify you as soon as we know, tell you who's coming, and try to send someone your family has met before when possible. During hospice, reliability isn't just a nice-to-have. We understand that, and we plan for it.
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Private Duty Aides — Prospect, CT
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