Parkinson’s Care in Hartford, 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 mother’s neurologist at Hartford Hospital mentioned at her last appointment that her tremors had progressed more than you realized, and on the drive back down New Britain Avenue you kept thinking about the mornings you aren’t there. She’s still in her house in the West End, still proud of managing on her own, but the medication schedule has gotten complicated and the falls she’s been quietly not mentioning are starting to scare you. You needed someone to step in before the next appointment becomes an emergency room visit.
We hear this a lot from Hartford families. Parkinson’s moves slowly until it doesn’t, and the gap between what a parent can do today and what they’ll need next month can close faster than anyone expects. We’re here to close that gap with steady, experienced, daily support at home.
Parkinson’s Care at home means showing up for the parts of daily life the disease makes harder: getting out of bed safely, managing the morning medication routine before the first dose has time to kick in, moving from room to room without a fall risk going unnoticed. It means a caregiver who understands that a good hour and a hard hour can look completely different in the same afternoon, and who adjusts without making your parent feel like a patient in their own home.
Day to day, our caregivers help with bathing, dressing, meals, mobility support, medication reminders, and companionship through the slower stretches. For families in Hartford’s North End, Asylum Hill, and Blue Hills neighborhoods, we also help coordinate around therapy schedules and post-discharge routines after stays at Hartford Hospital, where many of our clients land after a fall or a medication adjustment goes sideways. Getting back home is only the beginning of recovery, and we’re there for what comes after the discharge paperwork.
Rigidity, slowness, balance trouble, speech changes, and the emotional weight of all of it together are things our caregivers have seen up close. We build care around the whole picture, not just the most visible symptoms. Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to Parkinson’s Care is grounded in clinical reality, which means caregivers arrive already briefed on what to watch for, not learning on the job in your parent’s kitchen.
Nurse-founded, for exactly this. Our founder is a working nurse who watched families navigate tremors, falls, mobility decline, and complicated medication schedules without nearly enough real support. Private Duty Aides was built to fill that gap, which means Parkinson’s Care isn’t an afterthought here.
Caregivers matched for Parkinson’s, not just a time slot. We brief our caregivers on your parent’s specific stage, challenges, and daily rhythms before the first visit. Experience with Parkinson’s and a personality fit both matter, and we take both seriously when making a match.
We pick up the phone. When your parent has a hard day, or their condition shifts, or you have a question at 7pm, you shouldn’t have to leave a message and wait. We stay reachable because things change with Parkinson’s and waiting for a callback isn’t always an option.
We know Hartford. Hartford Hospital’s discharge process, the neighborhoods where our clients live, the local rhythms of Hartford County families, those things matter when care is personal. We’re not a national call center placing aides from a distance.
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 usually starts with the morning routine: getting up safely, help with bathing and dressing, making sure the first medications are taken on time before the day really gets going. From there it depends on your parent's stage and schedule, but it often includes meal preparation, gentle movement or walking support, medication reminders throughout the day, and companionship during the slower hours. We also keep an eye on balance and coordination changes and communicate anything we notice back to family. Nothing about it is one-size-fits-all, and that's the point.
We can usually have care in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for post-discharge situations from Hartford Hospital we often manage same-day starts when the timing is tight. The discharge process there can move quickly and families are sometimes scrambling to line up help before their parent is back home. Call us as soon as you know a discharge is coming so we can have a caregiver ready when it happens.
Private Duty Aides is a private-pay agency, which means we're not billed through Medicare, Medicaid, or most insurance plans. Medicare does cover some skilled nursing or therapy services under specific conditions, but it generally doesn't cover the kind of non-medical daily care we provide. Families pay us directly, which keeps things simple and removes a lot of the authorization delays and service restrictions that come with insurance billing. We're happy to talk through costs when you call.
Home health aides are typically ordered through a medical provider and covered (sometimes) by insurance, and their visits are usually short, focused on specific clinical tasks, and scheduled around a doctor's plan of care. Our Parkinson's Care is non-medical, private pay, and built around your parent's daily life rather than a billing code. That means we can be there longer, more consistently, and focused on everything that makes the day safer and more manageable, not just the tasks a Medicare audit would approve. The two can work alongside each other when someone needs both.
Yes, and we take this seriously. Parkinson's Care works better when there's genuine comfort between your parent and their caregiver, so we ask questions about personality, communication style, sense of humor, and daily preferences before we make a match. We also consider Parkinson's-specific experience. If a match isn't working after a few visits, we'll make a change without any friction, because getting this right matters more than keeping things convenient for us.
We maintain backup coverage so that a sick day or schedule conflict doesn't leave your parent without support. We'll always let you know as early as possible and send someone familiar with your parent's needs when we can. For Parkinson's Care specifically, continuity matters, so we don't send a random fill-in without context. Whoever steps in gets briefed on your parent's routine, medications, and what to watch for before they arrive.
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Private Duty Aides — Hartford, CT
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