Personal Care in Farmington, 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 dad had a post-op appointment at the Farmington Medical Center campus and the doctor mentioned, almost in passing, that he hadn’t been bathing regularly. He nodded and said he was fine. You sat in that parking lot on Farmington Avenue afterward and didn’t know what to do next. That moment, the quiet realization that something has shifted and your parent won’t say it out loud, is exactly why families in Farmington call us.
Personal care is the most private kind of help there is. Bathing, dressing, grooming, getting safely in and out of bed. Your parent has spent a lifetime managing these things alone, and needing assistance with them can feel like a loss. We take that seriously. We send caregivers who are trained, calm, and genuinely good at making people feel like themselves again.
We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay agency serving Farmington and all of Hartford County. No agency middleman, no rotating strangers, no guesswork. Just steady, respectful help that fits your family.
Personal care covers the hands-on daily tasks that become difficult or unsafe without support: bathing, showering, grooming, oral hygiene, dressing and undressing, toileting, incontinence care, transferring from bed to chair, and mobility assistance around the home. These aren’t small things. They’re the difference between a person feeling human and a person feeling helpless, and we treat them that way.
For families across Farmington, the most common trigger is a discharge from Hartford Hospital. A hip replacement, a cardiac event, a stroke, and suddenly your parent is home with paperwork and instructions but no real plan for the first morning. We can step in immediately after discharge, often within hours of the call, and provide the consistent physical support that makes recovery at home actually work. We also serve families where the need has built slowly over months, not suddenly overnight.
Because we’re nurse-founded, every Personal Care plan is built with clinical awareness. Our founder is a working nurse, which means our caregivers are briefed on the specific physical needs, mobility limitations, and dignity preferences that matter for each person. That background changes how we hire, how we train, and how we match.
Nurse-founded from the start
Our agency was built by a working nurse who watched families struggle with exactly this situation: a parent who needs physical help and resents needing it. She knew the clinical side and the human side, and she built an agency that holds both.
Personal Care done thoughtfully
We brief every caregiver before the first visit. We talk through the person’s preferences, physical needs, and what privacy means to them. The first time shouldn’t feel like a stranger walking in cold.
We stay reachable
When something shifts with Personal Care, whether a fall, a new medication, a change in mood, you need to reach a person, not a voicemail. We pick up. We respond. That’s not a feature, it’s just how we operate.
We know Farmington and Hartford County
We understand the discharge process at Hartford Hospital, the specific challenges of caring for someone at home in this area, and the kind of families who live here. That local knowledge matters when things get complicated.
How it works
No intake forms, no sales process. You tell us what’s going on with your parent, and we ask the right questions. For Personal Care especially, we need to understand the physical situation, your parent’s comfort level, and what’s worked or hasn’t before.
Personal Care requires real trust between the caregiver and the person receiving it. We match based on personality, experience with specific physical needs, and the kind of quiet respect that makes this work. Availability alone isn’t enough.
For families in Farmington dealing with a discharge or a sudden change, we often start same day. We don’t need weeks of processing. If the need is real and the match is right, we move.
You’re not handed off after care starts. We check in, we ask questions, and when something changes (and something always does), you call us and we figure it out with you.
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, Personal Care can include help with bathing or showering, dressing, oral hygiene, hair and skin care, toileting or incontinence support, and safe transfers from bed or chair. We also assist with mobility around the home and can support morning and evening routines. What it looks like depends entirely on the person we're caring for. We build the schedule around your parent's habits, not a generic checklist.
For post-discharge situations, we often start the same day or the next morning. Hartford Hospital discharges can move fast, and we've helped families in Farmington who found out at noon that their parent was going home that afternoon. Call us as soon as you know discharge is coming, even if the date isn't confirmed. The earlier we talk, the smoother the first day home will be.
We're a private-pay agency, so our services aren't billed to Medicare or Medicaid. Long-term care insurance sometimes covers non-medical home care, and we're happy to help you understand what your policy may include. Many families pay out of pocket and find that the cost is significantly less than assisted living while offering a much higher level of personal attention. We'll give you straightforward pricing with no surprises.
A home health aide (HHA) is typically a medically licensed role that handles clinical tasks like wound care or injections and is usually tied to Medicare or a skilled nursing plan. Our Personal Care aides provide non-medical hands-on support: bathing, dressing, mobility, grooming, and daily routines. For most families in Farmington, what their parent actually needs day to day is personal care, not skilled nursing, but the two can work alongside each other when necessary.
Yes, and for Personal Care we consider this essential. A caregiver helping someone bathe needs to be patient, quiet when quiet is needed, and genuinely respectful of privacy. We ask you about your parent's temperament, what makes them comfortable, and what would make them shut down. Then we match intentionally. If the first match isn't right, we talk about it and adjust. We'd rather get this right than move fast and lose trust.
We notify you as early as possible and arrange a backup who has been briefed on your parent's needs. For Personal Care especially, we understand that sending an unknown face without any context isn't acceptable, so we prepare backup caregivers the same way we prepare a primary. We don't leave gaps and we don't leave you to figure it out alone. If a situation ever feels mishandled, you call us directly and we fix it.
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