Parkinson’s Care in East Haven, 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 mentioned the fall to his doctor at the appointment over on Hemingway Avenue, but he downplayed it, the way he always does. You only found out because the doctor’s office called you afterward. That’s when it hit you: the tremors had gotten bad enough that he wasn’t telling you things anymore, and you live close enough to East Haven to check in but not close enough to be there every morning when he’s getting out of bed.
Parkinson’s moves on its own schedule, and at some point the worrying at a distance stops being enough. We help families in East Haven set up real, consistent support at home so your parent stays safe and you stop bracing for the next phone call.
Parkinson’s Care means having someone there for the parts of the day that have become genuinely dangerous or exhausting. That includes helping your parent move safely from the bed to the bathroom in the morning, keeping track of medication times (which matter a lot with Parkinson’s), and being steady support during meals when tremors make eating difficult. It’s physical help, but it’s also just consistent presence from someone who knows what Parkinson’s looks like day to day.
Families in East Haven often call us after a hospital stay at Yale New Haven Hospital, when a discharge planner has explained the risk of going home without help. The weeks after a Parkinson’s-related hospitalization are some of the most vulnerable, and having a caregiver in place before your parent comes home makes a real difference. We cover all areas of East Haven and can often have someone in place before or shortly after a discharge.
Beyond the immediate physical tasks, our caregivers watch for changes: a new shuffle in the gait, more freezing episodes, a growing reluctance to try things that used to be routine. They report back to you so you’re not piecing things together from brief weekend visits. Because we were founded by a working nurse, our caregivers are briefed on what to watch for in Parkinson’s specifically, not just given a general task list.
Nurse-founded from the start.
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with tremors, falls, mobility decline, and medication schedules actually needed at home. That perspective shapes how we hire, brief, and support every caregiver.
Built around Parkinson’s, not generic care.
When we match a caregiver for Parkinson’s Care, we look for specific experience: freezing episodes, gait changes, pill schedules, safe transfers. We don’t send whoever’s available and hope for the best.
We pick up when you call.
Parkinson’s doesn’t follow a business-hours schedule, and neither do we. When something shifts with your parent’s condition, you should be able to reach someone who can actually help, not leave a message and wait.
We know East Haven and New Haven County.
We understand the discharge process at Yale New Haven Hospital, the geography of East Haven neighborhoods, and the kinds of situations families here are navigating. We’re not figuring out your area as we go.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on, we listen. No intake forms to fill out before you talk to a person, no pressure to commit on the spot. We just want to understand your parent’s situation.
For Parkinson’s Care specifically, matching matters more than availability. We look for someone with real experience in tremors, fall prevention, and medication routines, and we think about personality fit too.
For East Haven families dealing with an urgent situation, same-day starts are often possible. We don’t make you wait a week to get help in place.
Once care is running, we don’t disappear. You hear from us regularly, and when something changes with your parent’s Parkinson’s, we adjust before it becomes a crisis.
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 includes help with the morning routine (getting up safely, bathing, dressing), medication reminders at the right times, meal preparation, and movement assistance throughout the day. A caregiver trained in Parkinson's will also watch for freezing episodes and help your parent move through them calmly. In the evenings, help getting ready for bed safely is often just as important as the morning. The goal is that the higher-risk moments of the day don't happen alone.
We can often have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for urgent situations we work to match same-day. If your parent is being discharged from Yale New Haven Hospital and you're arranging care in East Haven, the sooner you call us the better, because that first day home is often the most precarious. Discharge planners sometimes recommend this too, and we're set up to move quickly when timing matters.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare or Medicaid. Families pay directly, either out of pocket or through a long-term care insurance policy if they have one. Long-term care insurance sometimes covers non-medical home care like ours, so it's worth checking your parent's policy if they have it. We're transparent about our rates and will give you a clear picture of what care will cost before anything starts.
Home health aides are typically ordered by a physician after a hospitalization and are focused on skilled medical tasks like wound care or physical therapy exercises. That service is usually time-limited. Our Parkinson's Care is non-medical, which means we help with the daily living tasks that keep your parent safe and comfortable at home over the long term. The two services can overlap in timing, but they're covering different needs. Many families use both during a transition and then continue with us once the skilled home health visits end.
Yes, and we take this seriously. When we talk with you about your parent's situation, we ask about their personality, their daily rhythm, what makes them comfortable, and what tends to frustrate them. Parkinson's can affect mood and communication, so the relationship between your parent and their caregiver genuinely matters. We don't just match on experience and availability. If a match isn't working, you tell us and we find a better fit.
We keep coverage consistent because gaps in Parkinson's Care are genuinely risky. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we arrange a replacement before the shift is missed, and we brief that caregiver on your parent's routine and needs ahead of time. You're not left scrambling or going without. We let you know about any change in advance whenever possible so there are no surprises.
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