Personal Care in Bolton, CT
Hands-on help with bathing, dressing, grooming, and daily personal hygiene for seniors.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You noticed it when you pulled into the driveway on Bolton Center Road after your mom’s last doctor’s appointment. She’d been quiet the whole drive back from Manchester Memorial Hospital, and when you helped her up the porch steps she gripped your arm harder than she used to. She didn’t say anything. Neither did you. But you both knew something had shifted.
Getting help with bathing, dressing, or moving around the house is one of the hardest things for an older parent to accept. It feels like losing ground. What they need is someone who treats the whole thing with steadiness and respect, not just efficiency.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving Bolton and all of Tolland County. We work with families in exactly this moment, and we’re here when you’re ready to talk.
Personal Care covers the hands-on tasks that become harder with age or after an illness. That means bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, mobility support, and help getting in and out of bed or a chair. It’s the kind of care that happens close in, which is exactly why it requires someone who brings steadiness and respect to every visit.
For Bolton families, we see a lot of requests come in right after a discharge from Manchester Memorial Hospital. Someone comes home from a procedure or a hospital stay needing more physical help than family members can realistically provide every day. Our caregivers step in during that recovery window and stay as long as the support is needed, whether that’s a few weeks or much longer.
Across all areas of Bolton, families also call us when a parent has been quietly managing on their own and it’s finally time to get consistent help in place. Sometimes it starts with just a morning routine and expands from there as trust builds.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our caregivers are briefed on what to watch for during personal care tasks, things like skin changes, balance shifts, or signs that something may have changed medically, and they know how to communicate that back to you clearly.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who had seen firsthand what families navigating physical care and privacy really needed. That background shapes how we train, brief, and support every caregiver on our team.
Built for Personal Care specifically. We don’t treat every service the same. For personal care, we pay close attention to matching on temperament and experience, because this type of care asks a lot of everyone involved and the fit has to be right.
We stay reachable. When something shifts in your parent’s personal care needs, you shouldn’t have to leave a voicemail and wait. We keep our lines open and we follow through when we say we’ll call back.
We know Bolton and Tolland County. We understand how the discharge process works at Manchester Memorial Hospital, the geography of getting a caregiver out to a home in Bolton reliably, and the kinds of situations families here are dealing with.
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 Personal Care visit covers the morning or evening routine depending on what your parent needs most. That might be help with bathing or showering, getting dressed, grooming, toileting, and moving safely between rooms or from bed to a chair. Some families also ask caregivers to assist with medication reminders and light tasks tied to mobility. We build the schedule around what your parent actually needs, not a fixed checklist.
We can often have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for urgent post-discharge situations we've started same day when needed. If you know a discharge is coming, it helps to call us a day or two ahead so we can have a caregiver lined up before your parent gets home. The transition from hospital to home is one of the harder moments, and having support ready right away makes a real difference.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Families pay directly for services. We're upfront about our rates when you call, and there are no hidden fees. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that reimburse for private home care, and we're happy to provide documentation you'd need to submit a claim.
A home health aide (HHA) is a licensed role that involves clinical tasks and is usually ordered by a doctor and covered by Medicare for a limited period after an illness. Personal Care as we provide it is non-medical, meaning our caregivers assist with bathing, dressing, mobility, and daily routines but do not perform clinical procedures. Many families transition to private Personal Care once Medicare-covered home health visits end, because the need for hands-on daily help doesn't stop when the insurance coverage does.
Yes, and for Personal Care we treat the match as one of the most important parts of getting started. We ask you about your parent's personality, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past before we suggest anyone. If the first caregiver isn't the right fit, you tell us and we find someone who is. We'd rather take the time to get it right than place someone quickly and have it fall apart.
We keep backup coverage as part of how we operate so your parent's care doesn't get dropped when someone calls out sick or has an emergency. We contact you ahead of time when we know there will be a change, and we don't send an unfamiliar face without letting you know first. Consistency matters in Personal Care, and we work to protect it even when the schedule gets complicated.
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Private Duty Aides — Bolton, CT
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