Parkinson’s Care in Bloomfield, CT
In-home care for seniors living with Parkinson's disease — fall prevention, mobility support, and daily assistance.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
Your dad’s neurologist at the Movement Disorders clinic over on Cottage Grove Road mentioned at his last appointment that the tremors had progressed, and something about the way she said it made you realize you’d been telling yourself things were fine when they weren’t. You’d noticed the pill organizer sitting untouched on the counter for two days, and when you asked about it he brushed it off. You drove back to your own place through Bloomfield Center turning that conversation over in your head, wondering what happens next.
We hear that call a lot. Families in Bloomfield reach out to us at exactly this point, when the diagnosis isn’t new but the reality of what it means at home is finally landing. We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay home care agency and we specialize in exactly this situation.
Parkinson’s Care in the home is about steadying the practical things that the disease makes harder. That means helping with movement, reducing fall risk, and building a reliable routine around medication times so doses don’t get missed or doubled. It means being present for the transfers, the slow mornings, the moments when your parent’s hands won’t cooperate with buttons or a fork.
On a typical day a caregiver might assist with getting up safely, preparing meals at the right pace, accompanying your parent on a walk around the neighborhood to keep movement going, and making sure medications are taken on schedule. Families across all areas of Bloomfield also ask us to handle light tasks, transportation to appointments, and just being a calm, steady presence when anxiety runs high, which it often does with Parkinson’s. When a parent comes home from Hartford Hospital after a fall or a procedure, we can be in place the same day or the next morning so there’s no gap between discharge and real support at home.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, Parkinson’s Care here is designed around clinical realities, not just companionship. Our caregivers are briefed on what to watch for with Parkinson’s specifically, including changes in gait, swallowing difficulties, and signs that a medication schedule isn’t being followed correctly.
Nurse-founded, built around this. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families managing tremors, falls, medication schedules, and a parent still living at home with Parkinson’s actually needed. The service is structured around that knowledge, not around what’s easiest to staff.
Specific to Parkinson’s, not generic. We brief caregivers on your parent’s stage, their medications, their fall history, and their daily patterns before the first shift. A caregiver who understands Parkinson’s walks in differently than one who’s just been given an address.
We stay reachable. When something changes, and with Parkinson’s something always eventually changes, you call us and we answer. You won’t be routed to a call center or left waiting for a callback the next business day.
Local to Bloomfield and Hartford County. We know the discharge process at Hartford Hospital, the neighborhoods here, and the way care needs to work for families in this part of Connecticut. That familiarity matters when you need things to move quickly.
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 depends on where your parent is in their Parkinson's progression, but most days include help with getting up and moving safely in the morning, medication reminders at the right times, meal preparation, and assistance with any personal care tasks that have gotten hard. We also keep your parent moving because regular activity matters a lot with Parkinson's. The caregiver keeps a consistent routine, which reduces anxiety and helps the day go more smoothly for everyone.
In most cases we can have a caregiver in place the same day or the morning after discharge. If you know the discharge date ahead of time, call us a day or two before and we'll have everything arranged so there's no gap. We've helped many Bloomfield families who got less notice than they expected, and we're used to moving quickly when Hartford Hospital calls with a same-day release.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or insurance directly. Medicare covers skilled nursing and therapy visits through a certified home health agency, but it doesn't cover the kind of ongoing daily support we provide. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private-pay home care, so it's worth checking your parent's policy. We're happy to provide documentation to help with a claim if you have that coverage.
A home health aide from a Medicare-certified agency typically visits for a specific clinical task, like wound care or physical therapy, and those visits are short and goal-defined. Our Parkinson's Care is non-medical and ongoing. We're there for the whole day or the whole night, helping with everything that makes daily life safer and more manageable. Because we're nurse-founded, our caregivers are trained to recognize when something clinical is changing and to communicate that to family members quickly.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Parkinson's can affect mood and communication, so the fit between your parent and their caregiver matters more than it might in other situations. When you call, we'll ask about your parent's personality, preferences, daily rhythm, and what has or hasn't worked before. We use that to find the right match, and if the first pairing isn't right we'll make a change without making it a big production.
We cover the shift. We don't leave families without coverage because someone called out. When a substitute caregiver comes in, they're briefed on your parent's Parkinson's specifics, their routine, and what to watch for, so it's not starting from scratch. We'll also let you know in advance whenever we can so you're not caught off guard. Consistency matters a lot with Parkinson's and we work to protect it.
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