Hospice Support Care in Washington, 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 in the parking lot of the Gunn Memorial Library on Wykeham Road when the hospice nurse called and said your mother had maybe two weeks. You drove home on Route 47 in a kind of silence that had nothing to do with sound. Back at the house, you realized you couldn’t do the nights alone, and the nurse couldn’t be there every hour, and your mother had made it very clear she wasn’t leaving home. That’s the moment families in Washington call us.
Hospice support care means we’re there so your family doesn’t have to carry every hour alone. Our aides sit with your parent, keep them comfortable, help with positioning and hygiene, and stay present through the difficult parts of the day and night that hospice nurses can’t always cover. We’re not replacing anyone. We’re filling the hours in between.
Day to day, that looks like bathing, dressing, oral care, light meal preparation, and steady companionship through periods of restlessness or confusion. We follow the hospice team’s lead and communicate clearly with nurses about anything we observe. For families across all areas of Washington, having someone with real end-of-life experience in the house means you can step outside, sleep, or just breathe for a moment without fear.
Many Washington families connect with us after a short stay at New Milford Hospital, when a discharge happens faster than anyone expected and the home still isn’t quite ready for what comes next. We can have someone in place quickly, and we know how to work alongside existing hospice teams without confusion or overlap. Our agency was founded by a working nurse, which means our aides are trained to recognize clinical changes, communicate clearly with medical teams, and handle this specific kind of care with steadiness rather than panic.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who spent years watching families struggle through end-of-life care without enough support at home. She built this agency specifically to fill that gap, and every process we have reflects what she saw families actually need.
Specific to hospice support
We don’t treat hospice support like a standard home care shift. Our aides are briefed on each situation before they arrive. We match on experience with comfort care, on emotional steadiness, and on the ability to follow a hospice nurse’s clinical guidance without confusion.
We stay reachable
When something shifts during hospice care, and it will, you need to reach a person. You call us and we answer. We don’t route you to a call center or ask you to submit a request online at 2 in the morning.
Local to Washington and Litchfield County
We know the roads out here, the discharge process at New Milford Hospital, and the reality of rural home care in Connecticut. Washington families aren’t an afterthought to us.
How it works
You tell us what’s happening. No intake forms, no automated menus. We listen to the situation and ask the questions that actually matter, because hospice timing doesn’t wait.
For hospice support specifically, we match on experience with end-of-life care, temperament, and what you’ve told us about your parent. Availability alone isn’t enough for this.
Often same day for Washington families in urgent situations. We know the geography of Litchfield County and we don’t let distance slow us down when time is short.
You hear from us regularly, not just when something goes wrong. If something does change, you call us directly and we handle it. You won’t be left wondering what to do next.
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 helps with personal hygiene, repositioning, mouth care, light meals or fluids, and steady companionship. If your parent is restless or confused, the aide stays calm and present rather than escalating the situation. They also observe and report anything the hospice nurse should know, so communication stays consistent. The goal is comfort and dignity throughout the day, not a checklist of tasks.
In most cases we can have a caregiver in your Washington home within 24 to 48 hours of your first call, and same-day placement is possible when the situation is urgent. New Milford Hospital discharges can happen quickly, sometimes faster than families feel ready for, and we've helped many Litchfield County families bridge that gap. Call us before discharge if you can. That extra day of preparation makes matching much better.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance directly. Medicare's hospice benefit covers the hospice nurse, social worker, and chaplain, but it doesn't pay for continuous home aide support the way families typically need it. Private-pay care fills that gap. We're transparent about costs upfront and can talk through what hours of coverage would look like for your situation.
A home health aide typically focuses on recovery, rehabilitation tasks, and skilled care under a doctor's orders. Hospice support care is specifically oriented toward comfort and presence at the end of life, not recovery goals. Our aides work alongside the hospice team to support what the nurse has established, focusing on dignity, pain-free positioning, and being genuinely present with your parent. The mindset and training are different in ways that matter a great deal during this time.
Yes, and this is one of the things we take most seriously for hospice support in particular. When you call, we ask about your parent's personality, what makes them comfortable, whether they're private or social, whether they have any strong preferences. We use that to match an aide by temperament and experience, not just availability. If the first match isn't right, we don't ask you to live with it. We adjust.
We cover the shift. During hospice support, a gap in coverage isn't something we leave families to solve on their own. If your regular aide is sick or has an emergency, we find a substitute who has been briefed on your parent's situation before they arrive. We don't send strangers who walk in cold. You also hear from us directly when a change happens, not from a text message after the fact.
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Private Duty Aides — Washington, CT
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