Stroke Recovery Care in Lebanon, CT
Non-medical in-home care after a stroke — homemaker-companion support during rehab and recovery at home.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
Your dad came home from William W. Backus Hospital two weeks ago, and everyone who gathered on Town Street to help carry in the wheelchair has since gone back to their own lives. He’s doing his exercises, but only when someone’s there to remind him. You live forty minutes away and you’ve been calling every morning, listening hard to the silences between his words, trying to figure out if he’s okay or if he’s just saying he is.
Stroke recovery at home is one of the harder things a family can navigate. The therapy sessions end, the discharge papers pile up on the counter, and suddenly the daily work falls on whoever lives closest. In Lebanon, that often means a son or daughter who’s already stretched thin, trying to fill a role they were never trained for.
We’re here to help carry that. Our caregivers work specifically with post-stroke clients, supporting the routines, the mobility, the slow and sometimes frustrating work of getting stronger at home.
Stroke recovery care is non-medical support that keeps someone safe, moving, and on track during the weeks and months after a stroke. It picks up where the discharge from William W. Backus Hospital ends, when the clinical team has done their part and your family is left with the day-to-day. That means helping with movement, personal hygiene, meals, medication reminders, and being a steady presence so your parent isn’t spending long hours alone.
On a typical day, a caregiver might help with transfers from bed to chair, encourage and assist with prescribed exercises, prepare a meal, accompany your parent on a short walk around the yard, and handle light household tasks so the home stays manageable. For clients who are working on speech recovery, we support patience and calm communication. We don’t replace speech therapists or occupational therapists, but we make sure the work your parent is doing in therapy isn’t undone by an unsafe or stressful home environment.
Families all across Lebanon, from the areas around Lebanon Green to the quieter stretches near Exeter Road, reach out to us because the need doesn’t fit neatly into a medical box. It’s support, consistency, and someone who shows up. That’s what we provide, and we take it seriously.
Private Duty Aides was founded by a working nurse, and for stroke recovery specifically that matters. Our care matching is informed by clinical understanding of post-stroke needs, mobility limitations, and the warning signs that mean something has changed.
Nurse-founded
Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what post-stroke families actually need: not just a warm body in the house, but someone who understands mobility loss, communication challenges, and the exhaustion that comes with family overwhelm when a parent comes home from rehab.
Built around this specific service
We take time to brief caregivers on each client’s stroke history, physical limitations, and personality before the first visit. That preparation shows. Stroke recovery care requires a different kind of attentiveness than other home care, and our matching process reflects that.
We stay reachable
When something changes with your parent’s recovery, you call us and someone answers. We’re not a large agency where your file gets handed off to whoever picks up. You have a real point of contact, and that matters when the situation shifts quickly.
We know Lebanon and New London County
We understand how discharge from William W. Backus Hospital typically goes, what families in this part of Connecticut are dealing with, and how to coordinate care for homes in Lebanon’s more rural stretches. We’re not a distant agency guessing at your situation.
How it works
No intake forms, no automated menus. You tell us what’s going on and we listen. This first conversation helps us understand your parent’s stroke history, current abilities, and what your family needs most right now.
We don’t just find whoever is available. We match based on experience with post-stroke clients, communication style, and the specific physical and emotional needs that come with this kind of recovery.
For Lebanon families coming home from a hospital discharge, we know time matters. We work to get care started quickly, sometimes the same day you call, especially if the situation is urgent.
We stay in contact. If something changes with your parent’s condition or the care routine needs adjusting, you hear from us. You don’t have to chase us down to find out how things are going.
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 day depends on where your parent is in their recovery, but generally it includes help with morning routines like dressing and bathing, assistance with mobility and transfers, meal preparation, medication reminders, and gentle encouragement with any exercises the therapy team has prescribed. We also handle light household tasks and provide steady company throughout the day. The goal is consistency: your parent doing the same safe routines, with the same trusted person, every day they're scheduled.
We can typically start care within 48 hours of your first call, and for families coming home directly from William W. Backus Hospital we make every effort to be faster if needed. The best time to call us is actually a day or two before discharge, so we have time to match the right caregiver and do a proper briefing. If you're already home and realizing you need help now, call us anyway. We'll move as quickly as we can.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Families pay directly for the hours and services they need. We know that's a real consideration, and we're straightforward about rates and scheduling so you can plan. Some long-term care insurance policies do cover private duty home care, so it's worth checking your policy before ruling it out.
A home health aide typically works under a medical agency, visits on a prescribed schedule tied to insurance coverage, and focuses on clinical tasks. Our caregivers provide non-medical support: the daily physical and personal help that keeps someone safe and moving forward at home. We're not a substitute for therapy or medical care, but we're there for all the hours when the medical team isn't, which is most of the day.
Yes, and it's one of the things we put real effort into. We ask about your parent's communication style, temperament, what frustrates them, what motivates them, and what a good day looks like for them right now. Post-stroke care works best when there's genuine comfort between the caregiver and the client, so we take the matching seriously rather than just filling the schedule.
We make sure you know about it as early as possible and we find a qualified substitute, not just whoever is free. Any substitute is briefed on your parent's stroke history and care routine before they arrive. We don't leave you to figure it out on your own. Continuity matters a lot during stroke recovery, so we work hard to minimize disruption.
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Private Duty Aides — Lebanon, CT
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