Preferred Care at Home of Central Fairfield brings memory care support home, where your loved one already belongs.
Christine and Rick Geller own and operate this location from Wilton, Connecticut. As a licensed home care agency (HCA-0002249) and Best of Home Care Endorsed National Provider for 2024-2025, our team has earned the trust of families throughout Fairfield County, CT.
Every caregiver passes our seven-step screening process and is matched to your loved one by personality, not just availability. As a CareScout Quality Network Preferred Provider, we deliver personalized care that supports a better quality of life at home.
Our memory loss care is built for families in Wilton supporting a loved one through cognitive decline or another form of memory loss at home. Caregivers trained in memory care approaches provide safety monitoring, behavioral support, and cognitive engagement. Consistent routines and a familiar environment create meaningful improvement for those living with memory loss.
Personal care addresses the activities of daily living that become harder as memory loss or cognitive decline progresses for seniors in Wilton, CT. We provide hands-on help with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene. Services run from one hour to around-the-clock care, matched to what your loved one needs right now.
Companion care addresses the loneliness that deepens with memory loss, keeping your loved one connected with friends and the events that give daily life meaning. Our caring staff provides conversation, encouraging art activities, and transportation to community programs. Watching a mother or father stay engaged and meet new friends through consistent companionship makes a real difference.
Live-in care provides 24-hour supervision in the security of the home your loved one knows, without a move to a memory care community in Wilton or Fairfield County. Caregivers are matched by personality and life experience. With Wilton memory care communities averaging about $7,767 per month, families often find they pay less for live-in support while keeping their loved one at home.
Our Smooth-Transition Care supports seniors returning home after a hospital stay, when memory loss raises the risk of a difficult and costly readmission. A personal coach meets your loved one at discharge and monitors recovery and health at home. Connecticut’s readmission rate among people with memory loss is 22.7%, and a structured transition helps reduce that risk.
Homemaker care handles the household tasks that become unmanageable when a senior is living with memory loss in Wilton or anywhere across Fairfield County. We manage meals, grocery shopping, laundry, and light housekeeping. Consistent food, a warm home, and a stable daily routine all support better living and overall health for those with memory care needs.
Step 01
Call or reach out online. We respond quickly and make the first conversation easy for your family.
Step 02
We visit your home to understand your loved one’s care needs, daily routine, and current situation.
Step 03
You receive a written care plan built specifically around your family’s needs, preferences, and schedule.
Step 04
We match your loved one with a caregiver by personality and life experience, not just availability.
Step 05
We monitor, adjust, and communicate. Our ongoing care management keeps your family informed from anywhere.
Wilton’s large single-family homes, winding roads, and commuter geography create specific challenges for families managing memory loss or cognitive decline at home. These are the situations we encounter most often across Wilton, Connecticut.
Challenge
What It Looks Like
How We Help
Large home safety risks
What It Looks Like
Multi-level homes on large lots create wandering hazards, fall risks, and isolation for seniors with memory loss in and around Wilton.
How We Help
Our caregivers provide safety monitoring, fall prevention, and a consistent presence throughout the home and property.
Challenge
Family at a distance
What It Looks Like
Many Fairfield County families have adult children commuting to New York or Boston. Care gaps can go unnoticed until a crisis occurs.
How We Help
Gives remote family members real-time visibility into care schedules, caregiver notes, and daily updates.
Challenge
Driving dependence
What It Looks Like
Wilton’s rural-residential layout requires a car for most errands, appointments, and community events. When driving safely stops, daily independence narrows quickly.
How We Help
Our companion care and homemaker services cover transportation, grocery runs, meals, and appointment coordination.
Challenge
Post-hospital cognitive decline
Memory loss raises readmission risk after any hospital stay. Connecticut’s readmission rate among people with memory loss is 22.7%.
How We Help
Smooth-Transition Care places a personal coach at discharge to support recovery and monitor health at home.
Challenge
Daily living support gaps
Bathing, dressing, and personal care become harder as memory loss progresses, raising safety and dignity concerns at home.
How We Help
Our personal care services deliver hands-on support with activities of daily living, matched to each person’s current needs.
Challenge
Assisted living and memory care costs
Memory care in Wilton averages about $7,767 per month at local assisted living communities. Annual costs can exceed $90,000.
How We Help
In-home memory care support often delays or replaces facility placement. We help families compare options during a free consultation.
Preferred Care at Home serves families throughout Central Fairfield County and surrounding communities.
Including:
Memory care communities in Wilton average about $7,767 per month, based on A Place for Mom data. Across Connecticut, assisted living communities carry a median annual cost of $107,460, according to Genworth and CareScout. In-home memory care support can cost less, and families can learn more about paying for home care during a free consultation with our team.
A memory care community offers a secured campus with structured programming, meals, amenities, and trained staff on-site. Memory care residents live in shared or private spaces and participate in group activities including art and social events. In-home memory care supports the same goals in your loved one’s existing home, preserving independent living for as long as it is safe.
We are not a facility. We send screened, personality-matched caregivers to your loved one’s home. For families seeking quality care without moving a parent to a senior living community, we also process Long-Term Care insurance paperwork weekly, and offer VA Community Care Provider support.
Care typically begins within days of your first contact. We schedule a free, no-obligation home assessment, build a customized care plan, and match your loved one with the right caregiver. For families managing an urgent situation after a hospital discharge, we move quickly to get support in place.
Watch for difficulty with bathing, dressing, and preparing meals. Confusion around a daily routine, increased falls, and social withdrawal are also signs. If your mom, dad, or another elderly parent is living alone in a Wilton home and you notice periods of improvement followed by sudden decline, reach out to us.
Long-Term Care insurance often covers in-home memory care support, and we process LTC paperwork weekly, faster than most agencies in Connecticut. For veterans, we are an authorized VA Community Care Provider. As of January 2026, Connecticut private insurance must also cover biomarker testing that may support earlier diagnosis and care planning.
For many families, yes. Wilton is an ideal location for aging in place, with 88.6% of homes owner-occupied and nonprofits like Stay at Home in Wilton providing home safety assessments and transportation support. Our caregivers create a welcoming community around your loved one at home, with safety monitoring and consistent daily structure.
The Wilton Library and RVNAhealth host a monthly Memory Café for individuals with memory challenges and their care partners. Stay at Home in Wilton provides transportation, friendly visitor programs, and home safety assessments, and received a $60,000 state grant for its Home Safety Program. The Wilton Senior Center also provides programming for seniors and families.
A secured memory care community may be the right place when wandering risk is high and the home cannot safely be adapted, when 24-hour structured programming requires multiple staff members on-site, or when a loved one benefits more from community living and memory care amenities than from home-based support. We help families decide honestly during a free consultation.
Connecticut is the only state in the country that does not fully license assisted living facilities. The state separately licenses the service agency and registers the residential community. A 2024 legislative audit confirmed there is still no comprehensive, government-sponsored consumer resource covering Connecticut’s assisted living and memory care options in one accessible place.
