Stroke Recovery Care in Lyme, 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 drove out to pick up your parent from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital after the discharge meeting, and the whole ride back along Route 156 through Lyme you kept thinking about what exactly you were supposed to do when you got home. The therapists had given you papers. The doctor had said “follow up in two weeks.” But nobody told you how your parent was going to get from the bed to the bathroom safely at six in the morning, or what to do if the left arm wouldn’t cooperate. That gap between “discharged” and “actually okay at home” is where families in Lyme find themselves completely unprepared.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving New London County. We work specifically with families navigating stroke recovery at home, and we can help you figure out what real, daily support looks like for your parent right now.
Stroke recovery care at home is hands-on help with the tasks that became difficult or impossible after the stroke. That means safe mobility assistance, help getting dressed, bathing support, meal preparation, medication reminders, and staying close by during the hours when a fall or a moment of confusion is most likely. It also means being a consistent, calm presence for someone whose world just shifted significantly.
For families in Lyme whose parent has come home from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, the first weeks are often the most disorienting. Post-discharge instructions are written for ideal conditions, not for a rural home at the end of a long driveway where the nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away. Our caregivers help fill that space, keeping routines steady, watching for changes, and communicating with family members so nobody is left guessing. We also support speech recovery efforts by practicing conversational prompts and exercises suggested by the patient’s therapist.
Family overwhelm is real, and it usually comes on fast. Adult children who are managing their own jobs and households often find themselves trying to be on call around the clock, and that isn’t sustainable. Our caregivers take on the daily physical work so that family visits can feel like visits again rather than caregiving shifts. Because we’re nurse-founded, our staff understands post-stroke warning signs, knows how to document changes clearly, and can communicate directly with a patient’s medical team when something needs attention.
Nurse-founded. Our agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families dealing with post-stroke recovery at home actually needed. The way we train, match, and supervise caregivers reflects that clinical background, not just a business model.
Built around this service. Stroke recovery care has specific demands that general home care doesn’t always address. We brief caregivers on your parent’s stroke history, deficits, and therapy goals before the first shift, so they arrive prepared, not learning on the job.
We stay reachable. When something changes, and in stroke recovery it often does, you need to be able to reach someone who knows your parent’s situation. You call us and we answer. We don’t route you through a call center.
Local to Lyme and New London County. We know the discharge process at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, we understand what home environments in this part of Connecticut look like, and we serve the families who live here year-round, not just the ones closer to the highway.
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 looks different for every person depending on which functions the stroke affected, but it usually involves help with morning routines like getting up safely, bathing, dressing, and breakfast. Throughout the day a caregiver might assist with mobility, support any speech or exercise prompts from a therapist, prepare meals, handle medication reminders, and provide companionship. In the evenings they help with winding down safely. The goal is to keep things moving in a way that supports recovery, not just maintenance.
We can often have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for families in Lyme dealing with a same-week or same-day discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, we work hard to match that timeline. The sooner you call us, even before discharge if you know it's coming, the more smoothly we can prepare. Having a caregiver ready on day one at home makes a real difference in early recovery.
The short answer is no, at least not through us. We're a private-pay agency, which means families pay directly and we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Medicare may cover some short-term skilled nursing or therapy visits after a stroke through a separate home health agency, but that's different from what we provide. Our service is for the non-medical, daily support that continues beyond what Medicare-covered visits include.
A home health aide typically refers to a Medicare-covered clinician, often a nurse or therapist, who comes for short, skilled visits focused on medical assessment or specific therapy goals. What we provide is consistent daily support, meaning help with personal care, mobility, meals, and companionship throughout the day or night. These two types of care often run alongside each other in early stroke recovery, and we're experienced in working around a patient's existing therapy schedule.
Yes, and this is something we take seriously. Before we place anyone, we talk with you about your parent's stroke history, their personality, what frustrates them, what calms them, and what kind of presence they respond well to. Stroke recovery can involve significant emotional difficulty alongside the physical challenges, so the relationship between your parent and their caregiver really matters. If a match isn't working, we work with you to find someone better.
We cover shifts. We don't leave families in Lyme without care because a caregiver called out. When your regular caregiver can't make it, we find a qualified substitute, and we brief that person on your parent's needs before they arrive. We also try to keep a small, familiar rotation rather than sending a completely different face every time there's a change, because consistency matters a lot in stroke recovery.
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