Stroke Recovery Care in Preston, 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 up Route 2, turned onto the familiar road toward home, and helped your parent through the front door, and that’s when it hit you. The house that worked fine before the stroke suddenly felt full of obstacles: the bathroom at the end of the hall, the three steps into the kitchen, a phone they can’t quite hold steady anymore. The discharge summary from William W. Backus Hospital was thorough, but it didn’t answer the question you kept asking yourself on the drive back through Preston: who is going to be here tomorrow?
We’re a nurse-founded home care agency serving families all across New London County, and stroke recovery is one of the things we know most deeply. We help with the physical work of recovery, the daily rhythms that make it possible to stay home safely, and the steady presence that takes some of the weight off your shoulders.
Stroke recovery care at home means someone is there for the parts of the day that matter most. That includes helping with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene when mobility or coordination is limited, assisting with transfers from bed to chair or chair to bathroom, and keeping your parent safe during the hours when fatigue is highest. It also means being a consistent presence for someone whose world has just gotten much smaller and more confusing.
Many Preston families reach out to us right after a discharge from William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, when the transition from a structured rehab setting back to a quiet house in Preston can feel abrupt. We step in during exactly that window, providing the hands-on help that keeps recovery moving forward and keeps a hospital readmission from happening. Our aides help with medication reminders, light meal preparation, mobility assistance, and the kind of calm companionship that helps a stroke survivor feel less afraid at home.
We also support families who are dealing with communication changes. If your parent is working through speech recovery, our caregivers are patient, experienced with aphasia, and trained to communicate clearly without rushing. Across all areas of Preston, from the quiet residential roads near Poquetanuck Village to the more rural stretches toward the Griswold line, we match the level of care to what your family actually needs right now.
Because we’re nurse-founded, our intake process goes deeper than a checklist. The nurse who built this agency understood that post-stroke care requires caregivers who know the difference between a bad day and a warning sign, and we carry that standard into every placement we make.
Nurse-founded, not just nurse-approved
This agency was started by a working nurse who saw firsthand what families going through post-stroke recovery, mobility loss, speech changes, and the overwhelming first weeks home from rehab actually needed. That experience is built into how we hire, how we train, and how we match caregivers.
Specific to stroke recovery, not generic care
We ask detailed questions about your parent’s stroke before we ever suggest a caregiver. What side was affected? Are there swallowing concerns? Is there fatigue or mood change? The matching we do for stroke recovery is more careful and specific than what you’ll get from an agency treating it like any other case.
We stay reachable after care begins
Stroke recovery changes week to week. When your parent’s needs shift or something comes up that worries you, you need to be able to reach someone who knows your situation. We keep that line open, and we follow through.
We know Preston and New London County
We’re familiar with the discharge process at William W. Backus Hospital and the particular challenges of returning to a home in a more rural part of the county. We’ve worked with Preston families before, and that context matters when we’re putting together a care plan.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on. No intake forms, no pressure, no sales pitch. We ask questions and we actually pay attention to the answers, because the details of your situation are what make the difference in who we match to your family.
We don’t assign whoever is available. We look at your parent’s mobility needs, communication challenges, personality, and daily routine, then we match a caregiver who has real experience with post-stroke care, not just general home care.
For Preston families coming home from a hospital discharge, waiting a week isn’t realistic. We move quickly. Many families have a caregiver in place the same day they call, particularly when the situation is urgent.
We stay in contact after care begins. If something changes, if your parent’s needs shift or the schedule needs adjustment, you call us and we sort it out. You won’t be navigating this alone after the first week.
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 recovery, but it usually includes help getting up and moving safely in the morning, assistance with bathing and dressing, meal preparation, medication reminders, and companionship throughout the day. If mobility is limited, the caregiver helps with transfers and walks. If speech is affected, they slow down, communicate patiently, and help with any exercises the speech therapist has assigned. The goal is to keep the day structured and safe without making your parent feel like a patient in their own home.
We can usually have a caregiver in place within 48 hours of your first call, and for families coming directly home from a Backus discharge, we often move faster than that. The discharge team at Backus can tell you a lot about what level of support is needed, and if you share that information with us, it helps us move quickly. Call us before discharge day if you can, and we'll have a plan ready when your parent walks through the door.
Our services are private pay, meaning we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance. Medicare may cover skilled nursing or physical therapy visits at home through a separate home health agency, but it doesn't cover non-medical home care aides for daily assistance. Many families use personal savings, long-term care insurance, or Veterans benefits to cover private care. We're always happy to talk through what might be available to you.
A home health aide (HHA) through a Medicare-covered agency typically comes for short visits with specific skilled tasks and a set end date determined by insurance. Our stroke recovery caregivers provide ongoing, non-medical support for as long as your family needs it, with flexible scheduling and no insurance authorization required. We're not replacing the therapists or skilled nurses, we're filling the hours in between and after those visits, which is often where the real risk lives.
Yes, and we take that seriously. When you call, we ask about your parent's personality, their habits, what frustrates them, what helps them feel at ease. For stroke recovery, we also look at specific experience: has the caregiver worked with aphasia, with one-sided weakness, with post-stroke fatigue or mood changes? Personality fit matters as much as skill, and we won't place someone we don't think is the right match.
We keep a consistent backup caregiver identified for every client so that a substitution isn't a surprise for your parent. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we call you, explain the situation, and send someone your family already knows about. We don't leave you scrambling. Continuity matters a lot in stroke recovery, and we build coverage into the plan from day one.
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Private Duty Aides — Preston, CT
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