Stroke Recovery Care in Woodstock, 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 brother called you from the Woodstock Fair Road house saying your dad had gotten tangled in the shower grab bar and couldn’t explain what happened, because the words just weren’t coming out right anymore. That moment, standing in your kitchen trying to hold the phone steady, was the one where you realized the rehab stay at Day Kimball was ending and someone needed to be there every day. Not once a week. Every day. That’s where we come in.
We’re Private Duty Aides, a nurse-founded home care agency serving families across Windham County. We help people recovering from strokes stay safe, build back what they can, and stay in the home they know while the people who love them get some room to breathe.
Stroke recovery care is hands-on help with the daily tasks that become hard or unsafe after a stroke. That means helping someone get out of bed steadily, guiding them through a shower without a fall risk, making sure medications are taken at the right time, and sitting with them through exercises recommended by their therapist. It also means being present, because isolation slows recovery and nobody should spend the bulk of their day alone when they’re still figuring out how their body works now.
Families across all areas of Woodstock, from the quieter roads off Route 171 to homes closer to the Connecticut-Massachusetts line, typically call us in the days right after discharge from Day Kimball Hospital. That transition out of inpatient rehab is often the scariest part. The medical team was there around the clock, and now it’s just your parent and whoever can come over. We fill that gap in a way that’s consistent, trained, and reliable.
Day-to-day care might include mobility assistance and fall prevention, meal preparation suited to any post-stroke dietary needs, help with speech exercises as a supportive presence (not a speech therapist, but someone who follows the therapist’s guidance), transportation to follow-up appointments, and plain old companionship during a period that can feel very isolating. We can work mornings, full days, evenings, or around the clock depending on what your family actually needs.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our caregivers come in already knowing what post-stroke warning signs look like and what to do when something changes, which means families in Woodstock aren’t left guessing whether a symptom is worth a call.
Nurse-founded, and that shapes everything
Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families try to manage post-stroke care at home with no real support. She built this service around what those families actually needed: trained caregivers, clear communication, and someone in charge who understands clinical reality.
Matched for stroke recovery, not just availability
Stroke recovery is different from general companion care. We brief caregivers on your parent’s specific deficits before the first visit, and we match based on experience with mobility loss, speech difficulties, and the emotional weight that comes with this kind of recovery.
We answer when you call
Stroke recovery doesn’t follow a Monday-to-Friday schedule, and neither do we. When something changes or you have a concern, you call us and you reach a person. We don’t leave families managing a crisis through a voicemail system.
We know Windham County and Day Kimball
We understand how discharges from Day Kimball Hospital work, what families in Woodstock are typically navigating when they get home, and the realities of being in a more rural part of Connecticut where options are fewer and distances are longer. That local knowledge matters when we’re putting together a care plan.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on, we listen. No intake forms to fill out before you can talk to a real person, no pressure to commit to anything. Just a conversation about your parent’s situation and what you’re worried about.
We don’t assign whoever’s available that day. We look at your parent’s specific deficits, their personality, their routine, and find someone whose experience and temperament are a real fit for post-stroke care.
For Woodstock families dealing with a same-day discharge from Day Kimball, we work hard to move fast. Urgent situations get urgent responses. We don’t make you wait a week for a start date.
We stay in contact with your family, not just your parent. If something changes, if a new symptom shows up or the care needs to shift, you hear from us. You’re never left wondering 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 it usually involves help getting up safely in the morning, assistance with bathing and dressing, meal preparation, medication reminders, and keeping your parent engaged and moving based on whatever their therapist has recommended. We're also there to watch for changes, things like increased confusion, new weakness on one side, or trouble swallowing, and to communicate those to your family right away. The caregiver's job is to make the day manageable and safe, not to take over everything but to fill in exactly where the help is needed.
We can typically start within 48 hours of your first call, and for urgent situations tied to a hospital discharge we try to move faster than that. If you know the discharge date in advance, call us before your parent leaves Day Kimball and we'll have everything lined up so care starts the day they get home. The worst gap is the first night home with no support in place, and we try hard to make sure that doesn't happen for Woodstock families.
We're a private-pay agency, which means we don't bill Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. Some families use long-term care insurance policies to cover costs, so it's worth checking your parent's policy if they have one. We're upfront about pricing from the very first call so there are no surprises. Private pay does give you more flexibility in hours, caregiver matching, and scheduling than insurance-based services typically allow.
Home health aides are typically sent by Medicare-certified agencies for skilled nursing tasks or therapy follow-up, usually for a limited number of visits over a short window. What we provide is non-medical support that continues as long as your family needs it. We handle the daily living help, the safety piece, the companionship, and the consistency that keeps someone stable at home long after the home health visits end. The two services often run at the same time during recovery, and we're used to working alongside whatever clinical team is already involved.
Yes, and we take that seriously. We ask about your parent before we suggest anyone: how they communicate, what frustrates them, whether they're private or social, what their routine looked like before the stroke. For post-stroke care specifically we also look at experience with mobility assistance, speech difficulties, and the emotional side of recovery, because a caregiver who handles the physical pieces but puts someone on edge isn't actually helping. If a match isn't working, we fix it.
We maintain coverage. If your regular caregiver is sick or has an emergency, we contact your family directly and send a qualified backup, not whoever happens to be free, but someone we've already briefed on your parent's needs. We tell you in advance when we can and never just leave a shift uncovered. You'll always know who is coming and why before they walk in the door.
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Private Duty Aides — Woodstock, CT
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