Parkinson’s Care in North 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 was steady enough to walk to the car for his last appointment at the medical complex on Washington Avenue, but this time the neurologist pulled you aside afterward and said the tremors were progressing faster than expected. You drove back through North Haven quiet, nodding at things you didn’t fully process. By the time you got home, you were already doing the math on how often you could realistically get over there, and the numbers didn’t add up.
Parkinson’s moves in stages, and each one asks something new of the person living with it and the people around them. The medication timing matters more than most families realize at first. A missed dose can mean a hard afternoon, a fall, a phone call you weren’t ready for.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving North Haven and the rest of New Haven County. We can have someone there with your parent, in their own home, helping with the things that are getting harder to manage alone.
Parkinson’s care at home is about staying ahead of the disease’s unpredictability. Our aides help with movement and transfers, reducing the risk of falls during the moments that are hardest: getting out of bed, moving from room to room, navigating stairs. They’re also there to keep medication schedules on track, because timing really does matter with Parkinson’s medications, and a late dose can affect the entire rest of the day.
Day to day, that care looks like morning routines supported at a pace that works for your parent, meals prepared around their appetite and any swallowing concerns, and gentle encouragement to stay as active as is safe. Families across North Haven often come to us after a hospitalization at Yale New Haven Hospital, when a discharge happens and the reality hits that the home situation needs to change. We can step in quickly during that transition and continue care for as long as it’s needed.
Families in North Haven typically need flexible care that can grow with the diagnosis. Someone who starts needing a few hours of help a day may eventually need around-the-clock support, and we can scale with that. We work across all neighborhoods in North Haven and stay connected to families as things change.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our approach to Parkinson’s care reflects real clinical knowledge. Our aides are briefed on what Parkinson’s looks like in practice, not just in a training manual, and that shapes how they observe, communicate, and respond when something shifts.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with tremors, falls, mobility decline, and medication timing actually needed at home. That perspective is built into everything we do, including how we train and brief our aides for Parkinson’s specifically.
Built around this service. We don’t treat Parkinson’s care like a general aide assignment. We match based on experience with the disease, brief caregivers on where your parent currently is in their progression, and check in regularly to adjust as things change.
We stay reachable. Parkinson’s doesn’t follow a schedule. When something shifts at 7pm on a Tuesday, you need to be able to reach someone who knows your parent’s situation. We answer, and we follow through.
Local to North Haven. We know New Haven County, the discharge process at Yale New Haven Hospital, and the realities of getting care set up quickly in this area. We’re not a national call center matching you to whoever is available.
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 help through the morning routine, which is often when Parkinson's symptoms are most pronounced before medications take effect. Your caregiver helps with getting up safely, bathing, dressing, and breakfast. Through the day they monitor for signs of fatigue or instability, prompt medications at the right times, prepare meals, and provide steady companionship. If your parent does physical or occupational therapy exercises, the aide can help reinforce those at home too.
In most cases we can have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your first call, and for urgent post-discharge situations from Yale New Haven Hospital we work to get someone there the same day when we're able. The discharge window is one of the highest-risk periods for someone with Parkinson's because the home environment isn't set up for hospital-level monitoring. Calling us before or during discharge planning gives us the best chance to have care ready when your parent arrives home.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Families pay directly for the care. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private-duty non-medical aides, so it's worth checking your parent's policy if they have one. We're transparent about our rates from the first conversation so you can plan clearly.
A home health aide through Medicare or a skilled nursing agency typically provides short-term visits focused on clinical tasks after a medical event, and those visits end when the skilled need ends. Our Parkinson's care is non-medical, ongoing, and designed to support daily life at home for as long as your parent needs it. We're not replacing medical care; we're filling the space between medical visits with consistent, day-to-day help that actually keeps people safe and comfortable at home.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When we talk with you before care starts, we ask about your parent as a person, not just their diagnosis. Their routines, their preferences, what makes them comfortable or anxious, whether they want someone talkative or quiet. Parkinson's care works best when there's real trust between the caregiver and the person they're helping, and a mismatch in personality can undermine even technically good care. If the first match isn't right, we'll find someone better.
We don't leave a shift uncovered. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we contact you and arrange a backup as quickly as possible. For Parkinson's care especially, we try to use a backup who has already been briefed on your parent's situation rather than sending someone unfamiliar. Consistency matters with Parkinson's, and we work to protect that even when plans change unexpectedly.
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