Personal Care in Westerly, 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 mother made it through her appointment at the Westerly Health Center without saying a word, but on the drive back down toward the harbor you noticed she was gripping the door handle when she got out. She hadn’t mentioned the bathroom, hadn’t mentioned the mornings. She just thanked you and went inside. That silence is usually when families call us. Someone in Westerly needs physical help, knows it, and would rather struggle alone than feel like a burden to the people they love. We’re here for exactly that situation.
Personal care is hands-on help with the tasks that are hardest to ask for: bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, transferring from bed to chair, and moving around the home safely. These aren’t just practical tasks. They’re the moments where dignity either holds or quietly erodes, and the way a caregiver handles them matters just as much as whether they get done at all.
Day to day, personal care looks different for everyone. Some people in Westerly need help only in the morning to get dressed and ready. Others need a caregiver present throughout the day for mobility support, skin care, and help after meals. Families coming home from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital after a surgery or hospitalization often need temporary personal care during recovery, when a person isn’t yet stable enough to manage alone but doesn’t need skilled nursing every day.
We also hear from families across all areas of Westerly who need ongoing personal care for a parent managing a chronic condition, recovering from a stroke, or simply aging in a body that requires more support than it used to. The need doesn’t always arrive dramatically. Sometimes it builds slowly and families just need someone reliable to step in before a small struggle becomes a real injury.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and that shapes how we approach personal care specifically. Our caregivers know how to observe and report changes in skin, mobility, or behavior, things a non-medical aide might not notice, and they know when to flag something to a family or a physician.
Nurse-founded
Our founder is a working nurse who saw firsthand what happens when a parent needs physical help but resists asking for it. She built this agency around that specific reality, not around an abstract care model.
Built around this service
Personal care requires more care in matching and briefing than a companion sitting visit does. We take time before care starts to make sure the caregiver understands your parent’s specific preferences, physical needs, and how they want to be treated. That preparation shows.
We stay reachable
When something changes, or when you’re just not sure if what you’re noticing is normal, you should be able to reach someone quickly. We answer. We don’t route you through a call center and hope for the best.
Local to Westerly and New London County
We know the discharge process at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, the geography of Westerly’s neighborhoods, and the families here. That local knowledge is real and it affects how quickly and smoothly care gets set up.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms to fill out before you talk to a person, no pressure to commit. We want to understand the situation, including the parts that are uncomfortable to say out loud.
For personal care, the match matters more than almost any other service. We consider personality, communication style, experience with specific physical needs, and the parent’s preferences. A caregiver who’s technically capable but a wrong fit for your parent will not work out, and we know that.
For urgent situations in Westerly, often same day. If someone is coming home from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital or a family has reached a point where waiting is not safe, we move quickly.
We stay in contact after care starts. If something changes with your parent’s needs or the caregiver relationship, you don’t have to chase anyone down. You call us and we respond.
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 whatever physical tasks the person needs help with that day. That usually means help with bathing or showering, dressing, grooming, oral hygiene, and toileting. For people with limited mobility, it also includes safe transfers between bed, chair, and other areas of the home, as well as assistance walking. We set up each person's routine based on what they actually need, not a standard checklist.
We can typically have a caregiver in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for urgent post-discharge situations we often arrange same-day coverage. The key is contacting us as early in the discharge process as possible, even if the exact date isn't confirmed yet. We coordinate with what you know and adjust as the hospital finalizes the plan. Families in Westerly coming home from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital should not feel like they have to figure out the first few days alone.
We are a private-pay agency, which means we do not bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Families pay us directly. This gives us flexibility that insurance-driven agencies don't have, including more control over caregiver matching and scheduling. We'll be upfront about our rates on the call so there are no surprises.
A home health aide is typically a licensed medical professional ordered by a doctor and covered (temporarily) by Medicare after a qualifying hospital stay. Personal care, as we provide it, is non-medical assistance with daily physical tasks. It doesn't require a doctor's order and it isn't tied to a recovery timeline. Many families use personal care as a long-term support that continues well after any short-term home health coverage ends.
Yes, and we take it seriously. For personal care especially, someone being helped with bathing or dressing needs to feel genuinely comfortable with the person assisting them. We ask about your parent's personality, communication preferences, any sensitivities, and past experiences with caregivers before we suggest a match. If the first match doesn't feel right, we adjust. We don't treat that as a failure, we treat it as information.
We keep backup coverage in place so that a caregiver calling out sick doesn't leave your parent without help. If a substitution is needed, we notify you in advance whenever possible and make sure the substitute is briefed on your parent's routine and preferences. We don't just send whoever is available without context. Consistency matters in personal care and we work hard to protect it.
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Private Duty Aides — Westerly, CT
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