Personal Care in Groton, 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 mom’s doctor mentioned it at the appointment last month, right there in the office off Route 12 near the Navy sub base, almost casually. She’s been managing the stairs alone in the mornings, and she hadn’t told you. You drove back to Groton that weekend and noticed the grab bar was loose, the bathroom floor mat was bunched in the corner, and she changed the subject when you brought it up. That moment, when you realized she needs physical help but won’t ask for it, is exactly the moment most families call us.
We help people in Groton with the personal, physical parts of daily life: bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility. We do it with real care for privacy and dignity, because we know asking for this kind of help is hard for most people. Your parent doesn’t have to pretend anymore, and neither do you.
Personal care covers the physical tasks that become difficult or unsafe when someone’s body stops cooperating. That means bathing and showering, dressing and undressing, grooming, oral hygiene, toileting, continence care, and help moving safely from bed to chair or room to room. It also includes medication reminders and basic safety oversight during those hours when a person is most vulnerable.
Families across Groton, from the neighborhoods near Poquonnock Bridge to those closer to Eastern Point, usually come to us after something specific happens. Sometimes it’s a discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital after a fall or a procedure, and the discharge planner says the person needs hands-on help at home. Sometimes it’s slower than that, a family watching from a distance as small things pile up. Either way, we build the schedule around what your parent actually needs, not a generic package.
Because we’re nurse-founded, personal care is something we take seriously at the clinical level. Our founder understood that this kind of care, when done poorly, can cause real harm, and when done well, it protects a person’s sense of self. That background shapes how we train, brief, and match caregivers to this specific service.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families going through this actually need. The dignity and privacy issues that come with physical care are built into how we operate, not added as an afterthought.
Built around Personal Care specifically
We brief our caregivers on your parent’s preferences, sensitivities, and routines before the first visit. The matching process for personal care is more detailed than most agencies bother with, because it has to be.
We stay reachable
When something changes in the middle of a care arrangement, you need to be able to reach someone who knows your situation. We answer. We don’t route you to a call center or ask you to leave a message and wait.
Local to Groton and New London County
We know the discharge process at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. We know the geography of Groton and the families here. That context matters when we’re building a care plan that actually works in your specific situation.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms, no sales pitch. We ask questions, we hear you out, and we tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.
Personal care requires a particular kind of person. We match based on experience with the tasks involved, comfort with the level of physical assistance needed, and personality fit. Availability alone is never the deciding factor.
For Groton families dealing with a hospital discharge or an urgent gap in care, we move quickly. We’ll tell you exactly what to expect before the first visit happens.
We stay in contact with you after care starts. If something changes, if the routine needs adjusting or a concern comes up, you hear from us. You don’t have to chase us down.
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 visit covers whatever physical tasks your parent needs help with that day. That usually means bathing or showering, getting dressed, grooming, oral hygiene, and toileting or continence care. We also help with safe movement around the home, medication reminders, and making sure the environment is physically safe during the hours we're there. The schedule is built around your parent's routine, not ours.
We can typically start within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for urgent discharge situations we often get someone in place the same day. If you know a discharge is coming, call us before it happens so we can have a caregiver matched and ready. The discharge team at Lawrence + Memorial can tell you what level of hands-on help is recommended, and we take that directly into account when we plan the care.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare or Medicaid. Most standard health insurance policies don't cover non-medical personal care either. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover this kind of service, and it's worth calling your parent's insurer to ask about their benefits. We'll give you clear pricing upfront so there are no surprises.
A home health aide (HHA) is typically a licensed role tied to Medicare-certified agencies and involves some clinical tasks under a care plan ordered by a doctor. Personal care through a private-pay agency like ours is non-medical, meaning we handle the physical daily living tasks but not wound care, injections, or anything that requires a clinical license. For most families, personal care is exactly what's needed, and it gives you more flexibility in scheduling and caregiver choice than the Medicare route allows.
Yes, and for personal care this matters more than people expect. When someone needs help with bathing or dressing, the wrong caregiver can make an already uncomfortable situation worse. We talk with you about your parent's personality, what makes them comfortable, what sets them off, and what experience the caregiver should have. We don't just send whoever is available and hope it works.
We contact you directly and as early as possible, and we find a replacement rather than leaving you to figure it out. We keep detailed notes on your parent's preferences and routine so a substitute caregiver isn't starting from zero. For personal care especially, we try to minimize the number of different people coming into your parent's home, because consistency matters to how comfortable they feel.
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Private Duty Aides — Groton, CT
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