Personal Care in Stonington, 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 at the Blessing of the Fleet weekend, when your father came down the front steps of his Borough Street house gripping the railing with both hands and moving slower than you remembered. He made a joke about it. You laughed too, because what else do you do. But later, helping him back inside, you caught a glimpse of the bathroom and understood something had shifted in how he was managing on his own.
That moment, the one where you realize your parent needs physical help but would rather struggle in silence than admit it, is exactly why Personal Care exists. It brings a calm, consistent aide into the home to handle the things that have quietly become hard: bathing, dressing, grooming, moving safely from room to room. The goal is to let your parent keep their dignity intact while you stop carrying the worry alone.
Personal Care is direct, physical assistance with the activities of daily living. That means helping someone bathe safely, get dressed without a struggle, manage grooming, use the toilet with support, and move through their home without risk of a fall. For a lot of families in Stonington, it starts with one or two tasks and expands from there as needs change.
Day to day, it can look like an aide arriving in the morning to help with a shower, laying out clothes, fixing a simple breakfast, and making sure medications are on the counter before leaving. Or it can be a longer visit that covers personal hygiene, light mobility support, and companionship through the afternoon. For families bringing a parent home after a stay at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Personal Care often starts the day of discharge and provides the physical support that bridges the gap before follow-up care appointments begin.
Across Stonington, from the Borough to Pawcatuck, what we hear most often is that the parent resists help from their own family. There is something about accepting assistance from a trained, neutral caregiver that feels less like a loss. That dynamic matters, and our aides are chosen partly because they understand it without being told.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that shapes Personal Care specifically. The matching process, the briefing an aide receives before a first visit, and the way we watch for changes over time all come from clinical instincts, not just scheduling software.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Private Duty Aides was started by a working nurse who watched families struggle to find help that actually understood the physical and emotional complexity of Personal Care. The dignity piece, the resistance piece, the privacy piece: those aren’t soft concerns to us. They’re the whole point.
Built around Personal Care specifically
Our aides are briefed on your parent’s specific situation before they walk through the door the first time. We think about experience with mobility, bathing assistance, and the particular dynamics that come up when someone needs help they’d rather not need. The match is deliberate.
We stay reachable when things change
Personal Care needs can shift quickly, and when they do you need to be able to reach someone who knows your situation. We pick up. We respond. You’re not waiting on a call-back queue when something feels off with your parent’s care.
We know Stonington and New London County
We understand the discharge process at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, the geography of Stonington’s neighborhoods, and the families here. That local familiarity means we can move faster and communicate more clearly when something needs to happen quickly.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on, and we listen. No intake forms to fill out on your own, no pressure to commit on the first call. Just a real conversation about what your parent needs and what you’re trying to figure out.
For Personal Care, matching isn’t just about who’s available. We think about personality, experience with specific physical needs, and how your parent is likely to respond to someone new in their home. We get it right before we send anyone.
Most Stonington families are up and running within a day or two. If the situation is urgent, especially after a hospital discharge, we work to place an aide the same day. We know that waiting isn’t always an option.
Once care is in place, we stay in contact. If something changes, if your parent’s needs shift or a concern comes up, you’re not left tracking down an answer. We check in proactively so small things don’t become bigger ones.
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 physical tasks that have become difficult or unsafe to do alone: bathing or showering, getting dressed, grooming (hair, shaving, oral care), toileting assistance, and safe movement around the home. Depending on what your parent needs, a morning visit might focus on getting ready for the day, while a later visit handles evening routines. We build the schedule around what's actually useful, not a generic checklist.
In most cases, we can have an aide in place the same day your parent comes home from Lawrence + Memorial, as long as we have a little lead time to do the matching properly. If you know a discharge is coming, even a day or two in advance, call us then. The earlier we know, the smoother the transition. For truly urgent situations, we work as fast as we can and keep you updated every step of the way.
We are private pay only, which means we work directly with families rather than billing Medicare or Medicaid. Medicare does cover certain skilled home health services after a hospitalization, but non-medical Personal Care is generally not covered under those programs. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover Personal Care, so it's worth reviewing your parent's policy. We're happy to provide documentation that supports a claim if your insurance requires it.
A home health aide typically works under a physician's orders and may provide some clinical tasks like wound care monitoring or medication management as part of a skilled care plan. Personal Care, as we provide it, is non-medical: it focuses on daily living assistance, physical support, and helping someone function safely and comfortably at home. The two can overlap in practice, and many families use both at the same time for different purposes. If you're unsure what your parent needs, tell us what's happening day to day and we can help you sort it out.
Yes, and we take that seriously. For Personal Care especially, the relationship between your parent and their aide determines whether the whole thing actually works. Before we place anyone, we talk with you about your parent's temperament, what they're comfortable with, what tends to put them on the defensive, and any physical specifics we need to know. We use all of that in the matching process. If the first match isn't right, we fix it.
We handle coverage. If your regular aide is sick or unavailable, we reach out to you with a substitute option rather than leaving you to figure it out on your own. We try to use someone your parent has already met where possible, because familiarity matters when the care is physical and personal. You'll always know in advance who is coming, and we stay reachable throughout any transition.
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Private Duty Aides — Stonington, CT
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