Parkinson’s Care in Coventry, 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 mom’s neurologist at the clinic off Route 44 mentioned the word “progression” at her last appointment, and you drove home past Coventry Lake trying to figure out what that means for Tuesday mornings, for getting to the bathroom, for the medication she’s already forgetting to take at noon. You noticed her hands shaking through the whole visit, worse than the month before. Nobody handed you a plan on the way out. That’s the moment most families in Coventry call us.
We provide private-pay, non-medical home care for people living with Parkinson’s disease, and we do it every day. Tremors, freezing episodes, fall risk, medication reminders, the slow loss of steadiness that changes everything at home. We understand what this service actually requires.
Parkinson’s Care at home means showing up with an understanding of the disease itself, not just a checklist of tasks. Our caregivers help with safe transfers and mobility support, fall prevention, medication reminders timed to your parent’s schedule, bathing and dressing on days when motor symptoms make those things hard, and the steady companionship that keeps someone from feeling stranded inside their own body. We work around your parent’s rhythms because Parkinson’s symptoms shift throughout the day.
Day to day, that looks like a caregiver who arrives before the morning stiffness peaks, who knows not to rush, who times a walk to the kitchen around when medications are at their best effect. It means helping with meals when a tremor makes a fork unreliable, keeping the path to the bathroom clear, and being present during the frozen moments that feel frightening to everyone in the room. For Coventry families whose parent has been recently discharged from Manchester Memorial Hospital after a fall or a procedure, we can step in quickly to bridge that gap before the next round of outpatient therapy begins.
Families across Coventry typically need a caregiver who can be there on weekday mornings, or full days when a spouse is at work, or on weekends when the rest of the family lives an hour away. We build the schedule around what’s actually missing, not around a standard package. Because we’re nurse-founded, our team was built from the start with clinical awareness in mind, so caregivers working Parkinson’s cases understand fall risk, medication timing, and when something looks different enough to call family.
Nurse-founded, and it shows in Parkinson’s cases
Our agency was started by a working nurse who had watched families dealing with tremors, falls, medication confusion, and mobility decline struggle to find caregivers who understood any of it. That experience is built into how we hire, train, and supervise.
We match for Parkinson’s, not just availability
There’s a real difference between a caregiver who has worked Parkinson’s cases and one who hasn’t. We brief every caregiver before they walk through the door, and we match based on experience and fit with your parent’s specific stage and personality.
You can reach us when things change
Parkinson’s doesn’t hold still, and neither should your care team. When your parent has a harder week, when symptoms shift, or when you just need to talk through what you’re seeing, you call us and we pick up.
We know Coventry and Tolland County
We understand the discharge process at Manchester Memorial Hospital, how far Coventry families are from services, and what it means to coordinate care in a town that’s more spread out than a suburb. We’re not a call center placing caregivers from a list.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on, we listen. No intake forms, no pressure, no pitch. Just a real conversation about your parent’s situation and what you’re trying to solve.
We don’t just find whoever is available that week. We look at experience with tremors, fall support, and medication reminders, and we consider your parent’s personality and how they respond to people.
For most Coventry families, we can start within two days. If you’re in an urgent situation, often after a hospital discharge or a fall, we work to move faster than that.
You don’t hand off your parent and wait for problems to surface. We check in regularly, you can reach us when something changes, and we adjust the care as Parkinson’s progresses.
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 caregiver might help your parent get up safely in the morning when stiffness is at its worst, assist with bathing and dressing, prepare meals and sit with them during eating if a tremor makes it difficult, and give medication reminders at the right times. We also provide steady companionship and fall supervision throughout the day. The exact schedule is built around your parent's symptoms, medication peaks and valleys, and what your family needs covered most.
In most cases we can have a caregiver in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for urgent post-discharge situations we work to move faster. If you know a discharge date is coming, calling us a few days ahead makes the transition much smoother. Manchester Memorial does communicate discharge plans, and we can coordinate around that timeline so your parent isn't home alone before care is in place.
We are a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay us directly, usually on a weekly basis. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that cover non-medical home care, and we can provide the documentation those policies typically require. If cost is a concern, it's worth a conversation, because many families find that even a few hours a day is affordable and makes a real difference.
A home health aide is typically a medical service ordered by a doctor and covered by insurance for a limited period after a hospitalization or procedure. Our Parkinson's Care is non-medical and ongoing, meaning it fills in the daily support that medical agencies don't cover and don't keep providing once the skilled need ends. We help with the everyday realities of living with Parkinson's at home, not clinical treatment. The two services can run alongside each other and often do.
Yes, and we consider it one of the most important parts of what we do. When you call, we ask about your parent's temperament, how they respond to people, what matters to them, and what has worked or not worked before. We then match based on both Parkinson's-specific experience and personal fit. If the first match isn't right, we fix it. Your parent should feel comfortable with who's in their home.
We contact you directly and work to find a substitute who is already familiar with Parkinson's care, not just whoever is free that day. We brief any substitute caregiver on your parent's routine, preferences, and needs before they arrive. You won't find out about a change through a no-show. We communicate ahead of time and we take responsibility for keeping coverage in place.
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Private Duty Aides — Coventry, CT
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