Hospice Support Care in Somers, 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 got the call from the hospice nurse late on a Tuesday, while you were still sitting in the parking lot off Ninth District Road trying to think through what comes next. She walked you through what the next few weeks might look like, and somewhere in the middle of it you realized your dad can’t be alone between her visits. The house in Somers feels very quiet right now, and you’re trying to be everywhere at once. We help fill that time, carefully and steadily.
Private Duty Aides works alongside hospice teams to make sure someone is present, calm, and attentive when the nurse isn’t there. We’re not here to replace the medical team. We’re here so your family can sit next to your father and just be there, instead of worrying about what he needs next.
Hospice Support Care means being present in the ways that matter most when someone is nearing the end of their life at home. It’s sitting with your parent, keeping them comfortable, making sure they’re not alone when fear or confusion sets in at 2 in the morning. It includes personal comfort tasks like repositioning, light hygiene, and helping with water or small sips, always within the scope of what your hospice nurse has outlined.
Day to day, families in Somers often need someone who can relieve them for a few hours so they can sleep, eat, or be with their other children. They need a caregiver who won’t panic, who knows what the hospice plan says, and who will call the nurse when something changes rather than guessing. We also help with the gentle domestic things that keep a home calm: a warm blanket, soft music, a familiar routine carried on with steadiness.
Families whose family member has come home from Rockville General Hospital in their final days often find the transition the hardest part. The hospital had structure and staff around the clock. Home in Somers feels different, and having a consistent, familiar aide makes that shift easier for everyone in the house.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our caregivers are selected and briefed with a clinical eye. For hospice support specifically, that means we choose people who understand the emotional weight of this work and know when to be quiet, when to gently engage, and when to step back so your family can have time together.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening. No forms, no intake process that makes you repeat yourself five times. We listen, we ask a few careful questions, and we give you a straight answer about what we can do and when.
Hospice support asks something specific of a caregiver. We match based on experience with end-of-life care, temperament, and the particular needs of your family, not just who has an open shift.
For Somers families in urgent situations, we often start the same day. We know time matters here, and we don’t make you wait through unnecessary delays.
We stay in contact with you throughout. If something changes with the care plan, if you need more hours, or if something felt off, you call us and we respond. You won’t be passed to a voicemail system during the hardest weeks of your life.
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 of hospice support centers on comfort, presence, and light personal care. Your caregiver might help with repositioning, offer water or small amounts of food if appropriate, assist with gentle hygiene, and keep the environment calm and familiar. A big part of the role is simply being there, attentive and steady, so your family member isn't alone and so you can step away for a few hours without worry.
In most cases, we can have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your first call. For families coming home from Rockville General Hospital on short notice, we often start same-day when the situation is urgent. We ask that you call us as early as you can, even before discharge, so we have time to make a thoughtful match rather than just filling a shift.
We are a private-pay agency, so we do not bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Medicare does cover hospice services through certified hospice agencies, but that coverage typically does not extend to private-duty companion or personal care aides. Families in Somers who want a caregiver present beyond what their hospice benefit covers usually pay privately for that additional support. We can talk through the numbers with you plainly so you know exactly what to expect.
A home health aide typically works under a medical plan of care and may perform tasks like wound care or medication management. Our hospice support aides are non-medical. They focus on comfort, personal care, and presence, working alongside the hospice nurse rather than replacing any medical functions. Think of us as the layer of continuous human support that keeps your family member comfortable between skilled nursing visits.
Yes, and we take that seriously for hospice support in particular. We ask about your parent's temperament, their history, what unsettles them and what brings them comfort. We look for a caregiver whose personality is a genuine fit, not just someone with an available schedule. If a match isn't working, we'll make a change quickly, because the last thing we want is to add friction to an already difficult time.
We let you know as early as possible and we find a replacement, not a stranger pulled from a roster but someone we've briefed on your family's situation. During hospice support, continuity matters enormously, so we work hard to keep schedule disruptions rare and short. When a change does happen, we brief the fill-in caregiver directly before they arrive so your parent isn't meeting someone who doesn't know them.
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