Personal Care in Somers, 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 mentioned it at Thanksgiving, standing in the kitchen after everyone had gone home. He’d noticed your mother gripping the door frame when she walked down the hall to the bathroom, and she’d brushed it off before either of you could say anything. She’s lived near Somers Congregational Church for thirty years and she knows everyone on her street, but none of that makes the mornings easier now.
Personal care is the kind of help that most people need before they’re ready to ask for it. Bathing, dressing, moving safely from room to room, managing hygiene with dignity intact. These are the things that matter most and feel the hardest to hand over. We get that, and we work around it.
We’re a nurse-founded, private-pay home care agency serving families across Tolland County. When you’re ready to talk, we’re easy to reach and we’ll listen first.
Personal care covers the hands-on assistance that makes daily life possible when the body isn’t cooperating the way it used to. That means bathing and showering, dressing, grooming, toileting, and moving safely around the home. It also includes help with mobility, transfers, and getting to and from appointments, which matters a lot in a town like Somers where distances between services are real and taxis aren’t part of everyday life.
Day to day, the work looks different depending on your parent’s situation. Some people need a caregiver there every morning for two hours to get dressed and have breakfast safely. Others need help throughout the day, or during specific moments like medication reminders, bathing, or getting ready for bed. Families in Somers who’ve recently had a parent discharged from Rockville General Hospital often call us within days of coming home, when the gap between what the hospital provided and what daily life actually requires becomes clear.
Because we’re nurse-founded, the person who set up our care model understood from direct clinical experience what physical assistance actually requires, including how to preserve someone’s dignity while doing it. That shapes how we train our aides, how we match them to clients, and what we expect from every shift.
Nurse-founded, and it shows.
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand how families struggled when a parent needed physical help but resisted accepting it. That experience is built into how we train aides, how we approach difficult conversations, and how we handle sensitive care.
Built around Personal Care specifically.
We take the matching process seriously for this service because the relationship between aide and client matters more here than almost anywhere else. We brief our caregivers before they walk in the door, and we pair for temperament and skill, not just availability.
We stay reachable.
Personal care situations change. Your parent’s condition shifts, a caregiver needs to reschedule, or you notice something at a visit that concerns you. When any of that happens, you can reach us. We don’t route you to a call center.
Local to Somers and Tolland County.
We know the discharge process at Rockville General Hospital, we know the geography of Tolland County, and we’ve worked with families in Somers who are navigating exactly what you’re navigating right now.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms, no pressure, no sales script. We ask questions, we take notes, and we figure out together what kind of help makes sense.
For personal care in particular, the match matters. We pair based on personality, communication style, and your parent’s specific physical needs, not just who’s available on the schedule.
For Somers families in urgent situations, including post-discharge from Rockville General Hospital, we often place a caregiver the same day. We don’t make you wait when the situation doesn’t allow it.
We stay in touch with you after care begins. If something changes with your parent’s condition, if a shift didn’t go well, or if you just have a question, you call us and we pick up.
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 shift covers whatever physical assistance your parent needs that morning, afternoon, or evening. That usually means bathing or showering, dressing, grooming, and help with toileting if needed. If your parent has a specific routine they want to maintain, we work around it. The goal is that your parent gets through the hardest parts of the day safely and without feeling like they're giving something up.
We can often have a caregiver in place the same day your parent comes home from Rockville General Hospital, or the following morning at the latest, depending on when you call. Post-discharge is exactly when the need is most urgent, and we don't make you go through a slow intake process to get started. Call us as soon as you know the discharge date and we'll have a plan ready.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay directly, either hourly or based on the care plan we build together. The reason we work this way is that it lets us move faster, build better caregiver matches, and focus entirely on what your parent needs rather than what an insurance company will authorize. We're transparent about costs from the very first conversation.
A home health aide in the clinical sense is typically a Medicare-covered position tied to a skilled nursing order, meaning a doctor has to certify a medical need and visits are time-limited. Our personal care aides provide non-medical physical assistance, including bathing, dressing, grooming, and mobility support, on a schedule you control and without a physician order. The work often looks similar on the surface, but ours isn't tied to an insurance clock.
Yes, and we take that seriously for personal care in particular. When someone needs help with bathing and dressing, the relationship between caregiver and client matters as much as the physical skill involved. We talk with you about your parent's personality, their preferences, what makes them comfortable, and what would put them off. Then we match based on that. If the first match isn't right, we make it right.
We don't leave you to figure it out yourself. If your regular caregiver calls out sick or has an emergency, we contact you directly and find a replacement who has been briefed on your parent's care needs. We try to use the same small group of aides for each client so that a backup isn't a stranger. You'll always have a number to call and a real person on the other end.
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Private Duty Aides — Somers, CT
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