Parkinson’s Care in East Granby, 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.
You noticed it at Thanksgiving, when your dad reached for his coffee cup at the table and had to steady himself against the counter before he could sit back down. He brushed it off, and you let him, because that’s what you do. But on the drive back along Route 20 out of East Granby, you kept replaying the moment, wondering how many times that had happened when no one was watching. Parkinson’s has a way of progressing quietly, and by the time a family notices something, there’s usually already more going on than one shaky moment at a holiday dinner.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving East Granby and Hartford County. We help people with Parkinson’s stay home safely, with caregivers who understand what tremors, freezing, and medication timing actually look like in a real day.
Parkinson’s Care means having someone present who understands the unpredictability of this disease. A caregiver arrives, reads the day, and adjusts. That means steadying someone through a freezing episode, prompting medications at the right times, helping with bathing or dressing when motor symptoms make those things exhausting, and keeping the home environment clear of fall hazards. It’s not a checklist. It’s someone paying attention.
For families in East Granby, the need usually intensifies after a fall or a hospital stay. If your parent has come home from Hartford Hospital after a Parkinson’s-related event, the discharge instructions are good on paper, but the hours after you leave for work are a different story. Our caregivers are briefed specifically on Parkinson’s progression, so they know what to watch for and when to call you, not in a way that panics you but in a way that keeps you informed.
Day-to-day, this care can include medication reminders, mobility assistance, meal preparation, personal hygiene support, light exercise prompts, and steady companionship through the harder hours. Families across East Granby often start with a few hours a day and adjust as symptoms change, because Parkinson’s is rarely static.
We were founded by a working nurse, and that matters here specifically. Our founder built our caregiver briefing process around what nurses actually see in Parkinson’s cases: the fall risk patterns, the medication windows, the cognitive changes that can come alongside motor symptoms. That foundation shapes who we hire and how we train them.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families managing Parkinson’s actually needed, someone who understood tremors, fall risk, medication timing, and the slow decline of mobility. She built this agency around that knowledge, and it’s in every part of how we operate.
Built around Parkinson’s Care specifically
We brief every caregiver on the specifics of each client’s Parkinson’s symptoms before they walk in the door. The match process looks at experience, temperament, and familiarity with the disease, so your parent isn’t explaining their condition from scratch to someone new.
We stay reachable
Parkinson’s changes. A new symptom, a rough night, a medication adjustment that throws off the whole routine. When that happens, you call us and we pick up. We don’t route you through a call center or make you leave a message and wait.
Local to East Granby and Hartford County
We know the discharge process at Hartford Hospital. We know what it looks like to care for someone in a home along the rural stretches of East Granby. We’re not a national franchise working off a script. We’re here, and we know the ground.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No forms to fill out, no pressure to commit to anything. We listen to your parent’s situation, ask a few questions, and figure out what kind of help actually makes sense right now.
We don’t fill slots by availability alone. For Parkinson’s Care, we look for caregivers who have direct experience with tremors, freezing episodes, and medication-dependent schedules, and whose personality is a genuine fit for your parent.
For East Granby families in an urgent situation, often same-day. We know that when something has shifted with Parkinson’s, you don’t have a week to wait. We move quickly without cutting corners on the match.
We stay in contact after care begins. If your parent’s symptoms change, if you have concerns, or if something happened on a shift, you hear from us. You’re never left wondering what’s going on at home.
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 it usually involves medication reminders at specific times, help with morning routines like bathing and dressing, steadying support for walking or transfers, and meal preparation. A caregiver might also help with light exercise or stretching, run an errand if needed, and keep a close eye on any new symptoms. The goal is to make it a normal, safe day at home without your parent feeling managed or watched.
In most cases, we can have care in place within 48 hours of your call, and for East Granby families coming home from Hartford Hospital, we've started same-day when the situation required it. The key is calling us as soon as you know a discharge is coming so we can begin the matching process before your parent is already home alone. Hospital discharge is one of the highest-risk periods for people with Parkinson's, and we take that window seriously.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay us directly. We know that's a hard thing to hear, but it also means there's no pre-authorization process, no coverage limits, and no waiting for approvals before care can start. Some families use long-term care insurance policies to offset the cost, and we're happy to provide documentation to support a claim if you have that kind of policy.
A home health aide typically provides skilled nursing or therapy services prescribed by a doctor and billed through Medicare or insurance. Our caregivers are non-medical, meaning they don't perform clinical procedures or manage medications beyond reminders. What they do offer is consistent daily presence, hands-on personal care, and an understanding of Parkinson's that makes them genuinely useful in the home. The two types of care can run alongside each other, and often do when someone is coming out of a health crisis.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Some people with Parkinson's are private and don't want a lot of conversation, while others want company and want to feel like there's a real person in the room, not just a helper. Some need a caregiver with a calm, slow presence because rushing makes their symptoms worse. We ask about those things before we suggest anyone, and if the first match doesn't feel right after a shift or two, we work to find someone better. Getting the fit right matters as much as getting the skills right.
We cover the shift. We don't leave families without care because someone called in sick. If your regular caregiver can't make it, we contact you as early as possible and send someone who has been briefed on your parent's needs and Parkinson's history. We don't send whoever is available without that preparation. For families in East Granby who rely on consistent care, that continuity matters, and we protect it.
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