Hospice Support Care in Southington, 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 while you were still in the parking lot of Apple Harvest Health after a follow-up appointment on Queen Street, and you sat there for a long time before driving home. You knew this moment was coming, but knowing didn’t make it easier to figure out what actually happens next. Your dad wants to be home, in Southington, with the people he loves around him. That’s the one thing you’re certain of.
We help make that possible. Private Duty Aides provides in-home hospice support care for Southington families, working alongside your hospice nurses so there’s always a calm, experienced presence at the bedside when family needs a break or just needs to breathe.
Hospice support care means having a trained, steady aide present in the home to handle the physical and emotional work that surrounds end-of-life care. That includes personal hygiene, repositioning for comfort, light housekeeping, meal prep, and sitting with your family member so they’re never alone. It also means being a calm presence for the rest of the family, because this kind of caregiving takes a toll on everyone in the house.
Families in Southington often reach out to us after a discharge from MidState Medical Center, when the hospice plan is in place but there aren’t enough hands at home to carry it out. Our aides coordinate directly with the hospice nurses, following their clinical direction so nothing falls through the gaps. We handle the day-to-day tasks so the nurses can focus on pain management and medical care when they visit, and so your family can focus on being present.
Whether your family is in the center of town near the Southington Green or further out toward the Plantsville section, we come to you. We’ve supported families through every stage of this process, from the first weeks after a terminal diagnosis to the final days, and we adjust the level of support as things change.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our approach to hospice support reflects real clinical experience. Our aides know how to communicate with hospice teams, how to spot changes that need to be reported, and how to carry out care plans with the kind of precision that actually matters at this stage.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families navigating end-of-life care at home actually needed: someone trained enough to be trusted, and present enough to truly help. That shapes everything about how we hire and how we operate.
Built around this specific service
We don’t treat hospice support the way we treat a companionship visit. Our aides are briefed on the hospice care plan, matched for experience with this kind of care, and expected to communicate clearly with clinical teams. The approach is specific because the situation is specific.
We stay reachable
When something changes with end-of-life care, it can change fast. You call us and we answer. We don’t leave you to a voicemail system when you’re dealing with the hardest weeks of your life.
Local to Southington
We know Hartford County and we know how the discharge process works at MidState Medical Center. We’ve worked with families across Southington and understand the local hospice teams, the timing, and the geography. We’re not figuring this out from a distance.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms to fill out before you can talk to someone, no pressure to commit to anything. We listen to your situation and ask the questions that actually matter for your family.
Hospice support requires a specific kind of person. We don’t just check availability. We match based on experience with end-of-life care, temperament, and what we’ve heard about your family’s needs and your family member’s personality.
For urgent situations, we often place a caregiver the same day. If your family is in a time-sensitive moment following a discharge from MidState Medical Center or a change in condition, tell us and we’ll move accordingly.
You won’t wonder what’s happening or feel like you’ve been handed off. We check in regularly, communicate with you when things shift, and we pick up when you call. That matters more than it sounds when you’re in the middle of this.
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 involves personal care like bathing, oral hygiene, and repositioning for comfort, along with light housekeeping, meal preparation, and medication reminders as directed by the hospice nurse. Our aides also sit with your family member so they have company during the hours between nurse visits. If something changes, the aide communicates it to the family and the hospice team. The goal is to handle the physical work so the people who love this person can simply be with them.
In most cases we can begin within 48 hours, and for urgent situations following a MidState discharge, we've placed aides the same day. We know how the discharge process works and we don't need you to navigate bureaucracy before we can help. Call us as soon as you know the timeline and we'll move as fast as needed.
We're a private-pay agency, so our services are not billed through Medicare, Medicaid, or most insurance plans. Medicare does cover the hospice nurse and certain medical services under a hospice benefit, but it doesn't cover extended in-home aide hours of the kind we provide. Many families pay out of pocket, sometimes using long-term care insurance, veterans' benefits, or personal savings. We're upfront about costs from the first conversation.
A home health aide is typically ordered through a medical plan for skilled care tasks and visits on a scheduled, limited basis. Our hospice support aides are non-medical, which means they focus on comfort, personal care, presence, and coordination with the clinical team rather than clinical tasks themselves. We're there for more hours, more consistently, and our role is to fill the space between hospice nurse visits with real human support. It's a different kind of help, and most families find they need both.
Yes, and for hospice support we take that matching seriously. We ask questions about your family member's background, temperament, preferences, and what the hospice team has outlined for their care. A quiet, patient aide is not the same as a warm, talkative one, and the right fit matters enormously at this stage. If a match isn't working, we talk about it and find a better one. You tell us what you're noticing and we respond.
We contact you directly as soon as we know, and we work to have a backup in place before the shift, not after. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own. The replacement caregiver is briefed on your family member's care plan and preferences before they arrive. Continuity matters in hospice care, and we treat coverage gaps as our problem to solve, not yours.
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