Parkinson’s Care in Simsbury, 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 noticed it at the Simsbury Farms ice rink parking lot in December, helping your father out of the car, when his foot didn’t lift the way it used to and he grabbed your arm harder than he meant to. He said he was fine. You knew something had shifted. That moment, the one where you realized the falls weren’t random anymore, is usually what brings families to us.
Parkinson’s changes slowly and then all at once. The tremors get harder to hide, the medication timing starts to matter in ways it didn’t before, and getting around the house becomes a project instead of just walking. Families in Simsbury manage this for months, sometimes years, before they ask for help, and we understand that.
We’re a nurse-founded home care agency serving Hartford County. We work with families who want a real person in the home, someone who knows Parkinson’s and shows up reliably, without turning your parent’s life into a medical event.
Parkinson’s Care through Private Duty Aides is non-medical home support built specifically around the patterns of the disease. That means help with movement through the home, steadying and guiding during transfers from bed to chair or bathroom, and being present for the moments when rigidity or a freeze makes ordinary tasks unsafe to do alone. It also means building a routine around medication timing, so doses don’t get missed or doubled because the schedule slipped.
On a practical day, a caregiver might help with bathing and dressing during the window when your parent feels most capable, prepare meals that are easy to eat during periods of tremor, accompany them on a walk around the Simsbury Rail Trail when mobility allows, and stay close during the times of day when symptoms tend to intensify. Families across Simsbury, from the Weatogue area to homes near Hopmeadow Street, often tell us the afternoon hours are the hardest. We plan for that instead of ignoring it.
For families coming home after a stay at Hartford Hospital, we can coordinate care quickly. Post-discharge is one of the most vulnerable windows for someone with Parkinson’s, and having a consistent caregiver in place before the hospital sends them home makes a real difference. We work with what the discharge team gives us and fill in the gaps that a clinical team isn’t there for.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, the way we brief and match caregivers for Parkinson’s goes deeper than a general home care agency. Our caregiver notes include disease stage, fall history, medication timing, and the specific ways your parent’s symptoms present, not a generic checklist.
Nurse-founded, not office-founded. Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with tremors, falls, medication schedules, and a parent still living at home with Parkinson’s actually needed. That shaped how we train, brief, and match every caregiver we place.
Built for this service, not adapted to it. We don’t take a general home care approach and apply it to Parkinson’s. We ask about disease stage, symptom patterns, fall history, and medication timing before we match anyone. The briefing your caregiver gets is specific to your parent.
We answer when you call. Parkinson’s doesn’t follow a business-hours schedule, and neither do we. When something changes, whether it’s a new symptom, a schedule problem, or a caregiver question, you reach a real person and get a real answer.
We know Hartford County. We’re familiar with Hartford Hospital’s discharge process, the roads and neighborhoods throughout Simsbury, and the way families here tend to handle care decisions. We’re not placing caregivers from a distance and hoping it works out.
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 is built around your parent's routine and the times when their symptoms are most and least manageable. That usually means hands-on help with bathing and dressing in the morning, meal preparation, medication reminders at the right intervals, mobility assistance for moving around the home safely, and companionship during the long afternoon stretch. We work with the rhythms of the disease rather than against them, which means the schedule adapts to your parent rather than the other way around.
In most cases, we can have a caregiver in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for families in Simsbury facing an urgent discharge, same-day placement is often possible. Hartford Hospital's care coordinators can sometimes give families very little runway, so it helps to call us even before discharge is confirmed. The earlier we know the situation, the better the match we can make before your parent comes home.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Families pay directly, and we're clear about costs from the start so there are no surprises. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that reimburse for non-medical home care, and we're glad to provide whatever documentation you need to submit a claim. If you're not sure whether your policy covers this kind of care, it's worth a call to your insurer before we start.
A home health aide is a medical role, typically ordered by a doctor and covered by Medicare for a limited time after a health event. What we provide is non-medical personal care and support, which is ongoing and flexible rather than tied to a clinical order. For someone with Parkinson's, that means consistent daily help with the practical demands of the disease, not short-term visits focused on medical tasks. The two can work alongside each other, and many families have both for a period of time after a hospital stay.
Yes, and this is one of the things we take seriously. Before we place anyone, we ask about your parent's personality, how they respond to being helped, what makes them feel respected, and what would feel intrusive. We also look at the specific demands of their Parkinson's, including their fall history, their strongest and weakest times of day, and how they communicate when symptoms are difficult. The goal is a caregiver who fits the person, not just someone who's available in Simsbury on the right days.
We keep backup coverage available and we notify you before a shift is affected, not after. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we find a replacement who has been briefed on your parent's needs, not a stranger walking in without context. We understand that for someone with Parkinson's, an unfamiliar face handling care without preparation can be disorienting and stressful. Continuity matters to us as much as it does to you.
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