Hospice Support Care in South Windsor, 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 a Tuesday morning, and the hospice nurse had just left the house on Foster Street after her weekly visit. She’d been kind, thorough, and then she was gone, and you were alone with your parent in a quiet that felt too heavy to carry. The days between visits stretch out in South Windsor the same way they do everywhere, but that doesn’t make them easier. You needed someone to stay, to sit with you both, to help with the small things that add up fast when you’re already running on empty.
We’re Private Duty Aides. We’re a nurse-founded home care agency in Connecticut, and we work alongside hospice teams to make sure your parent has steady, calm support every hour of the day, not just during scheduled visits.
Hospice support care means having a trained aide present in the home to help with physical comfort, personal hygiene, medication reminders, and the quiet work of just being there. We’re not the hospice nurse, we’re not the social worker, but we fill in the long hours between their visits when your parent needs a steady, calm presence. A good aide notices when breathing changes, when pain seems different, when a family member needs someone to take over for a couple of hours so they can sleep.
Families in South Windsor often reach out to us after a discharge from Manchester Memorial Hospital, when a hospice plan is in place but the daily care still falls on family members who are stretched thin. We come in and take on the hands-on work, from bathing and repositioning to meal preparation and comfort companionship, so that your parent’s final weeks at home feel as peaceful and dignified as they should. Families across all areas of South Windsor, whether close to the town center or out toward the quieter residential streets near Nevers Road, can count on us to be there consistently.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support specifically is shaped by what nurses actually need from a home aide: clear communication, reliable presence, and the good judgment to know when to call the hospice team versus when to handle something in the moment.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating end-of-life care at home actually needed: an aide who understands the hospice process, supports the clinical team, and keeps the home environment calm and safe.
Matched for hospice specifically
We don’t send a general aide and hope for the best. We brief every caregiver on your parent’s hospice plan, their preferences, and what the family needs from them before the first shift begins.
We answer when you call
Things change fast in hospice care, sometimes overnight. When you need to reach us, you get a real person. We don’t let questions about your parent’s care sit unanswered in a voicemail queue.
We know South Windsor and Hartford County
We understand how discharge from Manchester Memorial Hospital typically goes, what families in this part of Hartford County are dealing with, and how to coordinate smoothly with the local hospice teams already in place.
How it works
We listen to what’s happening with your family right now. No forms, no intake paperwork upfront, no pressure. Just a real conversation about what you need and when.
For hospice support, we match based on experience with end-of-life care, temperament, and your parent’s specific situation, not just who’s available on the schedule.
We know time matters here. For urgent situations in South Windsor, we often place a caregiver the same day. We don’t make families wait when the situation is pressing.
You won’t be left wondering. We check in with you throughout the care arrangement so that if anything shifts, we adjust quickly and you always know who to call.
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 includes personal hygiene assistance, light meal preparation, repositioning and comfort support, medication reminders, and calm companionship for your parent. The aide also keeps an eye out for changes in condition and communicates with family members who aren't present. On some days the biggest thing they provide is simply a steady, unhurried presence so your parent doesn't feel alone during the hours between hospice nurse visits.
For families coming home from Manchester Memorial Hospital with a hospice plan already in place, we can often start care the same day or within 24 hours. We know that the window between discharge and having support in the home is stressful, so we treat these placements as urgent. Call us as early as you know a discharge is coming and we'll have a caregiver ready.
We're a private-pay agency, which means Medicare and most insurance plans don't cover our services directly. The hospice benefit through Medicare covers the clinical team, including nurses, aides assigned by the hospice agency, and social workers, but the hours that benefit provides are limited. Families hire us privately to fill in the remaining hours when they need more consistent coverage than the hospice benefit alone provides.
A home health aide typically works on a skilled care plan ordered by a doctor and billed through Medicare or insurance, focused on recovery or management of a medical condition. Hospice support care is about comfort and presence during end-of-life, working alongside the existing hospice team rather than replacing it. Our aides aren't administering clinical treatment. They're providing the human support, the daily physical care, and the steady companionship that makes time at home feel dignified.
Yes, and we take that seriously for hospice care in particular. Before the first shift, we talk with you about your parent's personality, communication style, what makes them comfortable, and any specific physical or emotional needs we should know about. We match based on that conversation, not just geography and availability. If the match isn't right after the first few days, we'll make a change without making you feel like you have to fight for it.
We cover the shift. We don't leave families in hospice situations without someone in the home because a caregiver called out. We keep a network of aides familiar with your parent's care and we'll send a qualified substitute rather than leaving a gap. We also let you know as early as possible when a schedule change is coming so it doesn't catch you off guard.
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