Hospice Support Care in Sherman, 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.
You were sitting with your father in the front room of his house on Route 37, watching the last of the October light come through the window, when the hospice nurse pulled you aside and said, quietly, that he needed more hours of support than their visits could cover. She meant it kindly. She was right. You drove back past the lake, hands in your lap, trying to figure out what to do next.
That moment, where the medical team has done what they can and the rest falls to family, is exactly where we come in. We provide non-medical support alongside hospice, so your father is never alone during the hours between nurse visits and you can actually be present with him instead of managing every task yourself.
We work with Sherman families every day, and we understand what end-of-life care at home really looks like when it’s honest and unhurried.
Hospice support care is non-medical help provided alongside a hospice team. We don’t replace nurses or aides from the hospice agency. We fill the hours they can’t cover, which is most of the day, sitting with your person, keeping them comfortable, handling light tasks around the house, and making sure they’re never alone when the family needs a break or has to step away.
Day to day, that looks like personal companionship, gentle assistance with repositioning or comfort, light meal preparation, reading aloud, quiet presence during the night, and helping families in all areas of Sherman coordinate the rhythm of care around hospice nurse visits. For families whose person has come home after a stay at Danbury Hospital, we can often start within 24 to 48 hours of discharge so there’s no gap in support during the transition home.
Families in Sherman often need us most during the overnight hours and on weekends, when hospice visits are less frequent and the weight of watching falls entirely on family. We take real shifts, real hours, and we stay the full time we say we will.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse who understood, firsthand, what families going through end-of-life care at home actually need from a non-medical aide, including knowing how to move through a home quietly, how to communicate changes to the hospice team, and how to hold steady when things are hard.
Nurse-founded, for real. Our agency was started by a nurse who saw, in real clinical settings, what families managing end-of-life care at home were missing. Support that shows up on time, stays the full shift, and knows how to read the room when things are changing.
Built around this specific service. Hospice support care isn’t just another category for us. We brief caregivers on each person’s condition and preferences before the first visit. We match on personality and experience, not just geography and hours.
We stay reachable. When something changes at 2 a.m. in Sherman, you call us and we answer. We don’t route you to a voicemail box or a staffing system. You get a real person who knows your family’s situation.
We know this area. We understand Fairfield County, the discharge process at Danbury Hospital, and what families in towns like Sherman are actually dealing with when they’re trying to manage care from a distance or alongside full-time work.
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, a hospice support aide is there for companionship, quiet presence, and practical comfort tasks. That might mean sitting with your person while they rest, helping with light repositioning, preparing a small meal or drink, reading to them, or simply being a calm and steady presence in the room. We communicate with the hospice nurse about anything we observe and follow the care plan they've established. The goal is that your person is never alone and never uncomfortable for lack of someone to help.
We can typically start within 24 to 48 hours of a Danbury Hospital discharge, and in urgent situations we often start the same day. The discharge process at Danbury moves quickly, and we know families in Sherman can find themselves home and in need of support before they've had time to get organized. If you call us while your person is still admitted, we can have a caregiver ready to be there when they arrive home.
We are a private-pay agency, so our services are not billed through Medicare, Medicaid, or health insurance. Medicare hospice benefits cover the hospice nurse, social worker, and chaplain visits, but they don't fund the kind of extended non-medical support hours that families need most. Many families pay out of pocket, or use long-term care insurance if they have a policy that covers private-duty aides. We're happy to walk you through what costs look like so you can make a clear decision.
A home health aide typically provides skilled or semi-skilled personal care and is often assigned through a Medicare or insurance benefit for a limited number of visits. Hospice support care from our agency is non-medical, private-pay, and focused on presence, comfort, and family relief during end-of-life care. We work alongside whatever medical team is already in place, not as a replacement for them. The two roles complement each other well, and many families have both.
Yes, and this is something we take seriously. Before we assign anyone, we ask you real questions about your parent's personality, what makes them comfortable, what unsettles them, and what kind of presence they respond to. We look for caregivers with genuine experience in end-of-life support, not just general availability. If a match isn't working after the first visit, you tell us and we'll find someone better. You shouldn't have to manage caregiver dynamics on top of everything else.
We contact you directly and give you as much notice as possible. We never just leave a shift uncovered without talking to you first. We'll offer a substitute caregiver who's been briefed on your person's situation and preferences, and we try to keep that as consistent as possible so your person isn't meeting a stranger in a difficult moment. In hospice care especially, we know continuity matters, and we do everything we can to protect it.
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