Parkinson’s Care in Manchester, 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 had an appointment at Manchester Memorial Hospital last month and the neurologist said something about medication timing that you wrote down but weren’t sure you understood. Then last Tuesday your sister called from across town and mentioned he’d been shuffling when he walked to the mailbox on Woodbridge Street, slower than she remembered, and that he’d skipped his evening pills two nights in a row because the bottle was hard to open. You weren’t there to see it yourself, but that call stayed with you. This is the part of Parkinson’s that doesn’t announce itself all at once. It just keeps changing the ground beneath him.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving Manchester and Hartford County. We work with families navigating exactly this: tremors that make daily tasks harder, fall risk that worries everyone, medication schedules that need real oversight, and a parent who still wants to be home. We’re here to help you build something steady around him.
Parkinson’s Care is hands-on, practical support built around the specific ways this disease affects daily life. That means helping your parent move safely through their home, assisting with bathing, dressing, and grooming when tremors or stiffness make those things harder, and being present during the times of day when balance tends to be worst. It means watching for the small changes, a new shuffle, a hesitation before standing, that families often miss because they’re not there every morning.
Medication timing matters enormously with Parkinson’s, and our caregivers are trained to support those schedules, not just remind someone to take a pill but actually understand why the timing window exists and what happens when it’s missed. For families in South Manchester and the Cheney District, where many people have lived in the same home for decades and want to keep it that way, this kind of consistent daily structure can make the difference between staying home and not. If your parent has recently been discharged from Manchester Memorial Hospital after a fall or a Parkinson’s-related event, we can step in quickly to support the transition back home before gaps open up in their care.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our approach to Parkinson’s Care is built on clinical understanding, not just task checklists. That means our caregivers are briefed on your parent’s specific stage, symptoms, and schedule before they ever walk through the door, and we update that picture as things change.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on with your parent, where they live, what the hardest parts of the day are right now. No intake forms to fill out before we’ll talk to you. No pressure. Just a real conversation about what you’re dealing with.
Availability isn’t the only thing we look at. We match based on experience with tremors, fall prevention, and medication schedules, and we consider your parent’s personality, routine, and comfort level. The fit matters as much as the hours.
For many Manchester families, especially those coming home from Manchester Memorial Hospital, we can start same day. We don’t put you on a waiting list when the situation is urgent.
We stay in contact with you after care begins. If something shifts with your parent’s Parkinson’s symptoms or the schedule needs to change, you don’t have to chase anyone down. We reach out, we listen, and we adjust.
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 help with morning routines like bathing, dressing, and getting up safely, medication reminders at the right times, mobility support throughout the day, meal preparation, and general supervision during hours when fall risk is highest. Caregivers also watch for changes in movement, speech, or balance that families sometimes don't notice because they're not there every day. It's steady, attentive presence rather than a list of tasks completed and checked off.
We can often start same day or within 24 hours for families coming home from Manchester Memorial Hospital. The period right after discharge is one of the highest-risk windows for people with Parkinson's, because the structure of the hospital setting disappears and medication timing, fall prevention, and daily routines have to be managed at home without clinical staff nearby. Call us as soon as you know the discharge date so we can have someone ready.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay out of pocket for our services. Some families use long-term care insurance policies to cover the cost, and we're happy to provide documentation that helps with those claims, but we can't verify coverage on your behalf. We're straightforward about this upfront so there are no surprises.
A home health aide typically works under a medical order, performs skilled or clinical tasks, and is usually covered through Medicare or insurance for a limited time after a qualifying event. Our caregivers provide non-medical support: personal care, mobility help, companionship, medication reminders, and daily structure. The difference matters because home health aide visits are often short and time-limited, while our care can be ongoing, daily, and built around your parent's full routine rather than a specific clinical task.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When you call us, we ask about more than just the schedule. We want to know about your parent's personality, their daily preferences, what makes them comfortable, and what tends to frustrate them. For someone with Parkinson's, trust and consistency with a caregiver matters more than it does in almost any other situation. We look for a real match, and if something isn't working after care starts, we fix it.
We notify you as early as possible and arrange a backup caregiver who has been briefed on your parent's situation, not someone who shows up cold with no context. We understand that for a person with Parkinson's, a stranger walking through the door without preparation can be disorienting and stressful. Continuity matters to us, so we work to minimize those gaps and to handle them well when they do happen.
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Private Duty Aides — Manchester, CT
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