Hospice Support Care in Weston, 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 on a Tuesday afternoon, and by the time you pulled into the driveway on Lyons Plains Road, you realized you had no idea what the next few days were actually going to look like. Someone needed to be there when you couldn’t be. Someone who wouldn’t panic, who knew how to sit quietly, who understood what the nurse was asking for and could follow through at 2 in the morning without a dozen questions. That’s the gap we fill.
Private Duty Aides works alongside hospice teams to make sure the person you’re caring for has steady, calm support at home in Weston. We handle the day-to-day comfort tasks, the physical presence, the small things that add up to dignity. You get to be family again, not just the person managing logistics.
Hospice Support Care means having a trained, calm aide present in the home during the end-of-life period to assist with physical comfort, light personal care, and companionship. Our aides work directly alongside the hospice nurses and social workers already on the case, following their care plan and communicating clearly so nothing falls through the cracks. We’re not replacing the clinical team. We’re the consistent human presence that’s there between their visits.
On a typical day, that looks like helping with repositioning, light personal hygiene, gentle companionship and conversation, preparing simple food or drinks if the person is still taking them, and sitting quietly when that’s what’s needed most. Families in Weston often reach out to us after a discharge from Norwalk Hospital, when a patient comes home under hospice status and the family suddenly realizes how many hours there are in a day that the clinical team doesn’t cover. We fill those hours with someone steady and present.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our aides understand clinical context in a way that makes a real difference in end-of-life care. They know what to watch for, they know when to call the hospice nurse, and they know how to keep a family informed without causing unnecessary alarm. That foundation shapes how we hire, train, and match for every Hospice Support Care placement across all of Weston.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families facing end-of-life care at home actually needed, and what was consistently missing. That experience is built into everything we do, from how we screen aides to how we handle a change in condition at midnight.
Built for this service. Hospice Support Care requires a specific kind of person and a specific kind of preparation. We brief our aides on the case before the first shift, match on experience with end-of-life comfort care, and don’t send someone in cold because the schedule worked out.
We answer when you call. When something shifts in an end-of-life situation, families need to reach a real person quickly. We stay reachable, we give you a direct line, and we take care changes seriously rather than routing you through a call center.
We know Weston and Fairfield County. We understand the discharge process at Norwalk Hospital, the roads and neighborhoods here, and the families in this part of Connecticut. That familiarity means less friction when you’re already dealing with a hard situation.
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
A typical day includes physical comfort assistance such as repositioning, light hygiene, and help with whatever the person can still comfortably do. Our aides provide quiet companionship, respond to requests, and coordinate with the hospice clinical team if something comes up that needs their attention. If the person is still eating or drinking, we help with that too. The goal is that the person in your care always has someone calm and present, whatever the hour.
We can often have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your first call, and same-day starts happen when the situation calls for it. Norwalk Hospital discharges can move quickly, and we've helped Weston families get set up the same afternoon a patient comes home. Call us as early in the process as you can, even before the discharge date is confirmed, so we can get the matching started.
Our services are private pay, meaning we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Some long-term care insurance policies do reimburse for private duty care, and we're happy to provide the documentation you need to submit a claim. We're upfront about costs from the very first conversation so there are no surprises.
Home health aides typically work under a clinical agency's care plan and focus on skilled or post-acute tasks. Our Hospice Support Care aides work alongside the hospice clinical team, but their role is comfort, presence, and non-medical support rather than clinical tasks. They're there to make sure the person is never alone, to provide physical comfort within their scope, and to be a calm anchor for both the person and the family. It's a different kind of role, and we select for it specifically.
Yes, and for Hospice Support Care we take that matching especially seriously. When you call, we ask questions about temperament, communication style, family culture, and the specific physical and emotional needs of the person in your care. We don't send whoever's available. If a match isn't right after the first shift, we make it right without making you go through a formal process to say so.
We keep backup coverage in place so a gap in care never falls on your shoulders. If your regular caregiver has an illness or emergency, we contact you directly, tell you what's happening, and send someone we've already vetted rather than a stranger from a pool. During an end-of-life period, consistency matters, so we try to limit coverage changes and brief any substitute thoroughly on your family's situation before they arrive.
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Private Duty Aides — Weston, CT
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