Personal Care in Coventry, 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.
Your brother called after dropping your mom off at Coventry Lake after her doctor’s appointment, and he said she almost couldn’t get out of the car on her own. She laughed it off, said she was just stiff from the ride, but he noticed she’d been wearing the same clothes for a few days and the bathroom looked like she’d been avoiding the shower. She’s sharp, she knows exactly what’s happening, and that’s exactly why she hasn’t asked for help. She’d rather struggle than feel like a burden to you.
That’s where Personal Care from Private Duty Aides comes in. We send someone to assist with bathing, dressing, grooming, mobility, and the other physical tasks that are hard to ask family to do. Our aides work quietly and respectfully, meeting your parent where they are without making a production of it.
We’re nurse-founded and private pay, which means no insurance hoops and no waiting on approvals. You call us, we listen, and we get started.
Personal Care covers the physical tasks that become hard or unsafe to do alone, and that most people don’t want to ask a family member to help with. That includes bathing, showering, dressing, grooming, oral hygiene, toileting, incontinence care, and help with mobility like getting in and out of bed or moving safely around the house. It’s hands-on, it’s personal, and it requires someone your parent can actually trust in that space.
Families across Coventry typically reach out when they realize the situation has gotten past what a quick daily visit from a son or daughter can handle. Sometimes it starts after a fall that went unreported for days. Sometimes it’s a discharge from Manchester Memorial Hospital after a surgery or hospitalization, when the patient comes home needing real physical help but isn’t quite ready for a skilled nursing facility. We coordinate around that discharge timeline so care is ready when your parent walks back through the door in Coventry.
Personal Care also overlaps with light safety oversight. If your parent is unsteady on their feet, our aides stay close, offer the right kind of support, and know when to flag something to you. That attentiveness is built into how we train and brief every aide before they start.
Because Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, our approach to Personal Care is clinically grounded even though it’s non-medical. That means our aides understand body mechanics, skin integrity, and the early signs that something is changing, which matters enormously when someone needs daily physical assistance.
Private Duty Aides was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families go through when a parent needs physical help but has too much pride to ask for it. That experience shaped everything about how we approach Personal Care, from how we train aides to how we talk to families on the first call.
We brief every aide thoroughly before their first visit. We share relevant background, preferences, sensitivities, and any physical considerations so the aide walks in prepared. We match for personality and comfort, not just schedule availability.
If something changes, if your parent’s condition shifts, if the schedule needs to adjust, you call us and we pick up. We don’t route you through a call center. Personal Care situations change, and we stay in front of that with you.
We understand the discharge process at Manchester Memorial Hospital, the geography of Coventry, and what families here are working with. We’re not a national franchise applying a generic playbook. We know the local context, and that makes a real difference in how quickly and smoothly care gets started.
How it works
Tell us what’s going on. No forms to fill out first, no pressure to commit on the call. We ask questions, we hear you out, and we give you honest information about what Personal Care looks like in your situation.
Personal Care is intimate, and the match matters more than most people expect. We consider your parent’s personality, their comfort level with someone new, their physical needs, and what kind of presence will actually put them at ease. We don’t just send whoever’s available.
For most Coventry families, we can have someone in place within two days of your first call. For urgent situations, especially post-discharge from Manchester Memorial Hospital, we work to move faster, sometimes same day.
You won’t be handed off and forgotten. We check in with you regularly so you know how things are going, and if something changes with your parent’s needs, we adjust. You can always reach us directly.
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
On a typical day, a Personal Care aide might help your parent shower or bathe, assist with dressing and grooming, support safe movement between rooms, help with toileting or incontinence care, and assist with any other physical tasks that have become difficult to do alone. The exact routine depends on your parent's needs and schedule. We build the care plan around how they live, not a generic checklist.
We can often have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for post-discharge situations from Manchester Memorial Hospital we make every effort to be ready the same day your parent comes home. The key is calling us as soon as you know the discharge date, even if it's still a day or two away. That gives us time to match the right aide and brief them before they walk in the door.
We are private pay only, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. This is a choice we made deliberately so that care decisions are made by you and your family, not by what a plan will or won't authorize. Some families use long-term care insurance policies that reimburse for private pay home care. We recommend checking your policy directly, and we're happy to provide documentation to support a claim if needed.
A home health aide (HHA) typically works under a licensed home health agency, is often insurance-billed, and may provide some basic medical tasks like wound care or medication management under a nurse's supervision. Our Personal Care aides provide non-medical physical assistance, which covers most of what families actually need day to day. Because we're nurse-founded, our aides are well-trained and closely supported, but they are not administering medical treatments. If your parent needs skilled nursing care at home, we can help point you in the right direction.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Personal Care requires a level of trust that doesn't come automatically, especially for a parent who's uncomfortable asking for help in the first place. We gather information about your parent's personality, preferences, comfort with strangers, and any specific sensitivities before we make a match. If the first match isn't right, we adjust. We'd rather take an extra day to get the pairing right than rush into a situation that doesn't work.
We handle coverage so that a gap in your parent's care doesn't fall on you to solve. If your regular aide is sick or unavailable, we find a replacement and we notify you ahead of time, not the morning of. When we send someone new, we brief them the same way we briefed your regular aide, so they walk in knowing what matters. You won't be left scrambling.
Learn more about this service
All home care services in Coventry
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
Private Duty Aides — Coventry, CT
Book a 15-min call