Parkinson’s Care in New Fairfield, 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 made it to your nephew’s birthday party at Candlewood Lake last summer, but something felt off. His hands shook when he tried to hold the cake plate, and twice he needed to grab your arm just walking across the lawn. He brushed it off the way he always does. But on the drive back up Route 37 you kept thinking about it, and a few weeks later his neurologist at Danbury Hospital confirmed what you’d already started to suspect. Now you’re trying to figure out how to make sure he stays safe at home in New Fairfield without him feeling like he’s lost his independence.
That’s exactly where we come in. We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving families across Fairfield County, and we work with people living with Parkinson’s every day. We can help your father stay at home, on his own terms, with the right person by his side.
Parkinson’s Care is non-medical home support built around the specific challenges of the disease: tremors that make it hard to button a shirt or hold a glass, stiffness that turns a walk to the bathroom into a fall risk, and medication schedules that have to be followed precisely or the whole day goes sideways. Our aides help with morning routines, meals, mobility, fall prevention, and medication reminders, staying close enough to help but not so close that your parent feels watched.
Families in New Fairfield often reach out after a hospital stay at Danbury Hospital, when a neurologist has cleared someone to go home but everyone knows “going home” right now means someone needs to be there. We can start care immediately after discharge, work directly with your discharge coordinator, and make sure the transition doesn’t undo the progress made during the stay. We also hear from families who haven’t had a hospitalization yet, but can see where things are heading and want to get ahead of it.
Day to day, that might mean helping your father get dressed without rushing him, making sure his walker is always within reach, or sitting with him through a meal when his hands make eating frustrating. Parkinson’s changes over time, and the care adjusts with it. We’re not putting a plan in place and walking away.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, every caregiver we place for Parkinson’s Care has been briefed on the specific symptoms and safety considerations that come with this disease, not just on home care in general. That background shapes how we train, how we match, and what we expect from the people we send into your home.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who spent years watching what families dealing with tremors, falls, medication timing, and mobility decline actually needed at home. The agency was built around those observations, not around what’s easiest to sell.
Specific to Parkinson’s
We don’t assign whoever’s available. For Parkinson’s Care, we brief our caregivers on the specific safety risks and daily patterns of the disease, and we match based on experience with those challenges. The first day shouldn’t feel like an experiment.
We stay reachable
Parkinson’s can change quickly, and when it does, you need to reach someone who knows your parent’s situation. You don’t get a call center. You get us, and when you call about a change in care, we pick up.
Local to New Fairfield
We know Fairfield County, we know the discharge process at Danbury Hospital, and we’ve worked with families throughout New Fairfield. That local familiarity means less explaining on your end and faster, smarter care on ours.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on with your parent’s Parkinson’s, where things stand, and what worries you most. No forms to fill out, no sales process. We just listen and ask the right questions.
For Parkinson’s Care, the match matters more than the schedule. We consider your parent’s stage of the disease, their personality, their daily routines, and what they’ll actually accept from a stranger in their home. Then we find the right person.
Often same day for families in New Fairfield who are in an urgent situation, especially post-discharge from Danbury Hospital. We don’t make you wait through a long intake process when the situation is pressing.
Parkinson’s doesn’t stay the same, and neither does the care plan. We check in with you regularly, not just when there’s a problem. If something shifts, you call us and we figure out the next step together.
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 covers help with morning routines like getting dressed and bathing, medication reminders at the right times, meal preparation, and being present for any movement around the house where a fall is a real risk. Some families also need help with exercises or stretches recommended by a physical therapist, and we can assist with those as well. The point is to keep your parent doing as much as they can on their own, with a steady hand nearby when they need it.
We can often have care in place the same day as discharge, and almost always within 48 hours. If you know the discharge date in advance, it's worth calling us a day or two before so we can have the right caregiver lined up and ready. We work with families coming out of Danbury Hospital regularly, and we understand how quickly things can go wrong at home in those first few days if no one's there.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay us directly. We know that's not what everyone wants to hear, and we're upfront about it because we think it's important to know before you get too far into the conversation. Some families use long-term care insurance policies to offset the cost, and we're glad to provide documentation to support those claims.
A home health aide typically comes in through a Medicare-certified agency for skilled nursing or therapy needs, often for a short period after a hospitalization. Our Parkinson's Care is non-medical, meaning we're not providing nursing or therapy services. What we do provide is consistent, ongoing personal support and companionship from someone who knows your parent's specific situation and shows up reliably. Home health aides often come and go; we're there for the long term.
Yes, and we take it seriously. Parkinson's Care works best when your parent actually likes and trusts the person helping them. Before we place anyone, we talk with you about your parent's routines, temperament, what they respond well to, and what would drive them up the wall. We factor all of that into the match, not just who's available. If the first match isn't right, we fix it.
We maintain backup coverage and handle scheduling on our end so a sick day doesn't leave your parent without help. You'll hear from us before any gap in coverage, not after. When a substitute is needed, we make sure that person is briefed on your parent's Parkinson's situation before they arrive, so your parent isn't starting from scratch with a stranger who doesn't know what's going on.
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Private Duty Aides — New Fairfield, CT
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