Hospice Support Care in Sharon, 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 the middle of the night when the hospice nurse called from Sharon Hospital to say it was time to bring your parent home. You drove back along Route 343 with your mind racing, thinking about the bed, the medications, the schedule, and who was going to be there when you couldn’t be. The house felt both familiar and completely foreign when you walked back in. That moment, right there, is why we exist.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving families across Litchfield County. We come in alongside your hospice team to handle the daily presence, the comfort, and the in-between hours so your family can sit together, grieve together, and simply be there.
Hospice Support Care means we work alongside the clinical team, not instead of them. Your hospice nurses and doctors manage pain and medical decisions. We handle the hours between those visits: sitting with your parent, helping with personal comfort, keeping them calm and clean, talking to them, reading to them, or simply being a steady presence in the room when family members need to step away and breathe.
After a discharge from Sharon Hospital, families in every part of Sharon, whether you’re in the center of town or out on one of the quiet back roads near the reservoir, often find themselves in a home that wasn’t quite ready for what comes next. We help with light hygiene assistance, repositioning for comfort, meal encouragement, and keeping the environment calm and familiar. We also communicate directly with your hospice team so nothing falls through the gaps between visits.
Families here often need someone who can stay overnight, cover a weekend shift, or step in when a sibling has to go back to work. We build a schedule around your reality, not a standard package. If one person needs music playing softly and another needs quiet and a hand to hold, we pay attention to that.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our caregivers understand the clinical context around end-of-life care. That means they know when to alert the hospice team, how to support rather than interfere with medical protocols, and how to keep a family informed without causing more panic.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families struggle through end-of-life care at home without enough support. She built this agency around what those families actually needed: a calm, experienced presence between clinical visits and someone who understands what hospice care requires of everyone in the home.
We’re specific to this kind of care
Hospice Support Care requires a different approach than standard companion care or personal care. We brief caregivers on what to expect, match based on end-of-life experience, and make sure everyone in the home is supported, not just the person receiving care.
We pick up when you call
When something shifts, you don’t have time to leave a voicemail and wait. We stay reachable because we know that in Hospice Support Care, small changes can matter quickly. You call, we answer, and we help you figure out the next step.
We know Sharon and Litchfield County
We understand how Sharon Hospital’s discharge process works, how far some Sharon families live from support services, and what the roads and routines here look like in practice. That local knowledge matters when we’re coordinating care quickly.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening, where you are, and what you’re worried about. No intake forms, no hold music, no pressure. We just listen and figure out together what would actually help.
For Hospice Support Care, the match matters more than the schedule. We think about temperament, experience with end-of-life situations, and whatever specific things your family tells us about your parent’s personality and needs.
Often same day for Sharon families in urgent situations. We know time is different when someone is in hospice, and we don’t make you wait through a long onboarding process when days are short.
You’ll hear from us regularly, not just when there’s a problem. If something changes with your parent’s comfort, behavior, or needs, we loop in with you and with the hospice team right away. You’re never left wondering what’s going on.
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 caregiver arrives, checks in with whoever is in the home, and settles in with your parent. They help with personal hygiene and comfort, repositioning if needed, light meal or drink encouragement, and companionship. They communicate with family members throughout the day and note anything worth flagging for the hospice clinical team. The goal is that the hours between hospice nurse visits feel covered, calm, and attentive rather than empty and uncertain.
In most cases, we can have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call. For families coming home from Sharon Hospital in urgent situations, we do our best to start same day when we have the right match available. Call us as early as you know discharge is coming, even if the date isn't set yet, so we can start the matching process before you're in a rush.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that cover private-pay home care, and we can provide documentation to support a claim if your policy allows it. We'll be straightforward with you about cost from the start so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically comes in for a set number of skilled-care visits prescribed by a doctor and billed through Medicare. Our Hospice Support Care aides are non-medical companions and personal care workers who fill the hours between those clinical visits with presence, comfort assistance, and family support. We don't replace the hospice nurse or the aide your hospice team sends. We extend the coverage so someone is always there.
Yes, and we take this seriously. When you call, we ask about your parent's background, what makes them feel safe, what irritates them, and what kind of person tends to put them at ease. We use that to make the match, not just who's available on a given day. If the first match doesn't feel right after a few days, you tell us and we adjust.
We keep a backup plan in place for every client, especially in Hospice Support Care where continuity really matters. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we contact you directly and arrange a fill-in as quickly as possible. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own, and we don't just send whoever happens to be free without giving you any information about them first.
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