Stroke Recovery Care in Lisbon, 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.
You got the call from William W. Backus Hospital on a Tuesday, and by Thursday your parent was home on Newent Road with a walker they weren’t sure how to use and a discharge summary you’d read four times trying to understand what comes next. The therapists were gone. The nurses were gone. And you were standing in the kitchen wondering how you were going to manage this alongside everything else in your life. That feeling, that specific overwhelm, is exactly what we built this service around.
Stroke recovery at home in Lisbon doesn’t follow a tidy schedule. One day the exercises go well; the next, fatigue wins and your parent can barely get to the bathroom safely. We provide steady, trained support so that the hard days don’t become dangerous ones, and so you can go back to being a family member instead of a round-the-clock caregiver.
Stroke recovery care is hands-on help with the physical and practical realities of life after a stroke. That means helping your parent move safely around their home, getting in and out of bed, bathing and dressing, preparing meals they can actually eat given any swallowing changes, and keeping track of medications at the right times. It also means being present for the emotional weight of it, sitting with someone who is frustrated that their words aren’t coming the way they used to, and doing that with patience rather than rushing them along.
Families across Lisbon, from those in the quieter stretches near the Quinebaug River to those closer to Route 138, often find themselves scrambling in the first two weeks after a hospital discharge. William W. Backus Hospital does a good job with acute care, but the gap between leaving the hospital and settling into a real routine at home is real and it’s hard. Our aides step into that gap. They help with the home exercises a physical therapist has prescribed, they watch for warning signs of a second stroke or a fall risk, and they keep you informed so you’re not guessing.
Because we’re nurse-founded, the people who designed how we work have actually stood at a bedside and know what post-stroke recovery demands. That means our aides are placed with stroke clients deliberately, not randomly, and they arrive knowing what to expect and what to watch for.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families leave the hospital with a stack of papers and no real plan. She built this service around what post-stroke recovery actually needs at home, not what looks good in a brochure.
Matched for stroke recovery specifically. We brief every caregiver before they start. They know about your parent’s affected side, their communication challenges, their fall risk, and their daily routine before they walk in the door.
We stay reachable. Recovery isn’t linear, and needs shift. When something changes, whether it’s a new symptom, a scheduling issue, or a concern about how care is going, you call us and we respond. You won’t be chasing someone down.
We know Lisbon and New London County. We understand the discharge process at William W. Backus Hospital, the geography of the area, and the kind of families here who are often managing this from a distance or while working full time.
How it works
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 it generally includes help getting up and moving safely, assistance with bathing and dressing, meal preparation, medication reminders, and support with any exercises the physical or occupational therapist has assigned. If speech is affected, our aides are patient and calm, giving your parent time to communicate without finishing their sentences for them. We also keep a close eye on fatigue, which tends to hit hard in the weeks right after a stroke.
We can usually begin within 48 hours of your call, and for families in Lisbon dealing with a same-day or next-day discharge, we've started care the same afternoon. The sooner you reach us, even while your parent is still at Backus, the easier it is to have someone ready when they walk through the door at home. Call us before discharge if you can.
We're a private-pay agency, so we don't bill Medicare or insurance directly. Medicare does cover some skilled nursing and therapy visits through a separate home health benefit, and you may be receiving those already. What we provide is the day-to-day, non-medical support that Medicare doesn't cover, things like help getting dressed, preparing meals, and being there for safety and company throughout the day. Some long-term care insurance policies do reimburse for this kind of care, and we're happy to give you documentation to submit a claim.
A home health aide through Medicare or a medical agency is focused on skilled care, wound care, IV management, therapy, and is typically limited to a small number of visits per week. Our stroke recovery care is non-medical but much more consistent, designed to be there for several hours a day or even around the clock if needed. We handle the everyday physical and practical support that keeps your parent safe and comfortable between those skilled visits, and we stay in the picture for as long as recovery takes.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When you call us, we ask about your parent's personality, their communication style, whether they're private or social, patient or easily frustrated, and what their daily routine looked like before the stroke. We use that information when we match a caregiver, not just what's available on a given shift. If the first match isn't quite right, we'll make a change without making you feel like you're being difficult for asking.
We always send a backup, and we brief that person before they arrive so your parent isn't meeting a stranger who knows nothing about them. We contact you as soon as we know about a change so you're never surprised the morning of. The goal is that care continues without a gap, and we treat an uncovered shift as something that doesn't happen on our watch.
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Private Duty Aides — Lisbon, CT
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