Parkinson’s Care in 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 were at your parent’s house off Salmon Brook Street last Sunday, helping them get their weekly pill organizer sorted, and you noticed the Tuesday and Wednesday compartments still had last week’s doses in them. They didn’t mention it, and you didn’t want to make it a thing. But driving back past the orchards on the way out of Granby, you couldn’t stop thinking about what else you might be missing. That moment, quiet and unsettling, is exactly why families here start looking for help.
Parkinson’s doesn’t announce itself loudly. It shows up in small slips, skipped doses, a slower shuffle down the hallway, a hand that trembles pouring morning coffee. We work with families in Granby who are watching that progression and want someone steady, knowledgeable, and kind in the house to help.
We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay home care agency serving Hartford County. If you’re trying to figure out whether now is the right time to bring in help, we’re happy to talk it through with no obligation on your end.
Parkinson’s care at home means showing up every day for the practical, physical, and emotional realities of the disease. That includes mobility assistance, fall prevention, help with dressing and bathing on harder mornings, and structured medication reminders so doses don’t get missed the way they did that Sunday. It also means a consistent presence, because familiarity matters enormously to someone whose world is already feeling less reliable.
Families in Granby often call us after a discharge from Hartford Hospital following a fall or a medication-related event. Those first weeks back home are disorienting, and having a trained aide in place before discharge, or within days after, makes a real difference in how the transition goes. We work across all areas of Granby, and we can typically have someone in place faster than most families expect.
The day-to-day can include meal preparation timed around medication schedules, gentle movement support and walking assistance, help with hygiene and grooming, transportation to appointments, and steady companionship for someone who may be feeling frustrated or isolated by what their body is doing. We tailor the hours and tasks to what your parent actually needs, not a fixed package.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our caregivers understand the clinical picture behind Parkinson’s. They know what early signs of a fall risk look like, how to recognize when a symptom has shifted, and when to loop in the family or a medical provider. That clinical background runs through everything we do.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families managing tremors, falls, medication schedules, and progressive mobility loss actually needed. That perspective shapes how we train, match, and supervise every caregiver.
Built for this specific service
Parkinson’s care requires a different kind of attention than general home care. We brief caregivers thoroughly on your parent’s current stage, their triggers, their routine, and what “a bad day” looks like for them. Experience with this disease isn’t optional for us.
You can actually reach us
When something changes, and with Parkinson’s it will, you need to be able to call someone who knows your situation and can respond. We don’t route you through a call center. You call us, we answer, and we know who you are.
We know Granby and Hartford County
We understand how Hartford Hospital’s discharge process works, what resources exist in this part of the county, and how families in Granby tend to navigate these situations. That local knowledge means less explaining on your end.
How it works
No intake forms, no automated system. You tell us what’s going on with your parent, what you’re worried about, and what you think you need. We ask questions and tell you honestly what we can do.
We don’t just fill a slot based on who’s available. For Parkinson’s, we match based on experience with tremors, mobility decline, medication routines, and the particular personality of your parent. The fit matters.
For families in Granby dealing with an urgent situation, including post-hospital discharge, we routinely get care in place the same day or the next morning. We don’t make you wait through a long onboarding process.
Parkinson’s changes over time, and so does what your parent needs. We check in with you regularly, not just when there’s a problem. If something shifts, you hear from us first.
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 your parent's current stage, but it usually includes help getting up and moving safely in the morning, assistance with bathing and dressing, medication reminders at the right times, meal preparation, and support with walking or transfers throughout the day. We also provide steady company, because isolation makes the emotional side of Parkinson's harder. As the disease progresses, we adjust the level of hands-on help to match what's needed.
We can often have a caregiver in place the same day or within 24 hours of a discharge from Hartford Hospital. If you know the discharge date ahead of time, that's even better, because we can do the matching and briefing before your parent comes home. The transition from hospital to home is one of the riskiest periods for someone with Parkinson's, and we take it seriously.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare or standard health insurance. Medicare does cover some skilled nursing and therapy services through a certified home health agency, but it doesn't typically cover the ongoing non-medical support we provide. Families usually pay out of pocket, and some use long-term care insurance if they have a policy that covers personal care or home aide services. We're happy to help you understand the distinction if you're sorting through your options.
A home health aide through a Medicare-certified agency is typically focused on skilled care tasks, such as wound care or physical therapy, and is usually short-term after a medical event. Our caregivers provide non-medical support, meaning daily living assistance, medication reminders, fall prevention, companionship, and mobility help, on an ongoing basis. For Parkinson's, that sustained daily presence is often what makes the difference between someone staying safely at home and ending up back in the hospital.
Yes, and we take that seriously. We ask about your parent's temperament, what frustrates them, what makes them feel respected, and what their daily rhythm looks like before we make a match. For someone with Parkinson's, consistency matters, so we aim to get the match right from the start rather than cycling through multiple caregivers while your parent adjusts. If the first match isn't working, we fix it.
We keep backup coverage available and contact you as soon as we know there's a scheduling issue. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own or simply not show up. Any substitute caregiver we send is briefed on your parent's situation before they arrive. We know that for families managing Parkinson's, an unexpected gap in care isn't a minor inconvenience, and we treat it accordingly.
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