Fairfield County, Connecticut
Home care in Bridgeport, CT, and what it costs
This is the biggest older population we serve, and it gets the same phone number as everyone else.
Endurance Home Care provides home care in Bridgeport, CT, a city with an estimated 20,406 residents age 65 or older, and reviews long term care insurance with families before any schedule is set.
An estimated 20,406 residents age 65 or over. American Community Survey, 2024 one year estimates.
The largest older population in the territory
More people over 65 live in this city than in any other town Endurance covers, an estimated 20,406 of them. That single number changes what the work looks like here. It is not a handful of households scattered across a small town, it is a large population in one place, and the question families here ask first is almost never what care includes. It is what it costs, and whether any of it is covered. So that is what this page leads with, rather than a description of how caring everybody is.
The office is one town over, at 60 Long Ridge Rd, Suite #214 in Stamford, and it runs the same schedules and the same Connecticut License HCA.0002450 · New Jersey License HP0435100 · Connecticut DPH License 9915786 (Endurance Home Health) in every town it covers. For the rest of that territory, see the Fairfield County hub.
What a caregiver does in the house, and what a caregiver never does
Endurance is a Connecticut Homemaker Companion Agency, which is a daily-living registration, and that word is the whole boundary. Caregivers support, coordinate, remind, accompany, and supervise. Anything clinical belongs to a nurse or a doctor, and a family that is told otherwise by any agency should ask to see the registration number before going further. Most households here start with one or two of the items on the left, a few hours at a time, and add from there as a week changes shape rather than signing for a package.
Included in a visit
Personal care
Hands on help with bathing, dressing, and moving safely from room to room.
Companion care
Company, conversation, meals, errands, and somebody within earshot when being alone is the risk.
Homemaking
Laundry, dishes, tidying, and the shopping, so the house stops getting away from somebody.
Medication reminders
A prompt when a dose is due, and a note to the family if it was missed.
Safety supervision
Presence during the hours of the day a fall is most likely, and a call out if something changes.
Transportation
Door through door rides to appointments, the pharmacy, and the grocery store.
Never included, at any price
- Diagnose anything, or say what a symptom means.
- Treat a wound, a condition, or an injury.
- Administer medication, including handing over a dose from a bottle.
- Assess a medical need or write a clinical plan.
- Give an opinion on what a doctor or a discharge planner has said.
Endurance Home Care provides care at home in Connecticut and New Jersey, with companion care only in New York. Skilled nursing, home health aides and physical therapy in Connecticut are provided by Endurance Home Health.
If the hard part is the bathroom rather than the loneliness, start with help with bathing and dressing. If the week only has a few difficult hours in it, most families here begin with hourly care at home and grow the schedule from there.
Two hospitals, one question: who is in the house for the first seventy two hours after the ride home.
Two hospitals serve this city: Bridgeport Hospital at 267 Grant Street, part of Yale New Haven Health, and St. Vincent’s Medical Center at 2800 Main Street, part of Hartford HealthCare. Which one a discharge comes from changes the drive and the follow up appointments, not the work waiting at the house. Endurance Homebound is the program built for the stretch that follows either of them: the meals, the reminders, the safety supervision through the nights nobody in the family can stay awake for, and the rides to the follow ups. Same daily-living work as any other schedule, run at the hours that are hardest to cover.
Connecticut License HCA.0002450 · New Jersey License HP0435100 · Connecticut DPH License 9915786 (Endurance Home Health). Neither hospital is affiliated with Endurance Home Care.
What the city already runs, and what it leaves to you
The city Department on Aging runs socialization, elderly education, and an information and referral desk, and the Eisenhower Senior Center at 307 Golden Hill Street is where a good deal of that lands. Call them first. A week that already has structure in it needs fewer paid hours around it, and nothing on this page is a reason to skip a city program a household can already use.
Getting around is the other half. GBT Access paratransit covers a large share of the city, and the radius rule that decides whether an address qualifies is answered plainly further down this page. What paratransit cannot do is wait, carry the groceries in, or be there at seven in the evening, which is the part a caregiver covers. Neighboring towns have pages of their own, including home care in Stratford and home care in Trumbull.
None of these organizations are affiliated with Endurance Home Care.
What it costs, and what the first call is
The published Connecticut median for homemaker services was 34 dollars an hour in 2024, reported by Long Term Care Navigator. That is a statewide median rather than a quote for this city or an Endurance rate, and the only number worth planning against is the one written for your actual schedule.
Check the policy before the schedule
Many long term care policies pay for home care, and the terms differ enough that reading yours beats any general answer. We go through the policy with you before hours are set, which is what using long term care insurance walks through in full.
One call, then a plan written in the house
A person answers the Client Support Line at (203) 936-6847. A registered nurse then comes to the house, sits with the family, and writes the care plan around the week you actually have. If you would rather start by talking it through, request a consultation.
The schedule is meant to be rewritten
Start with the hours the week genuinely needs and change them when it changes. Households here add hours after a discharge and drop them again when the stairs stop being the problem.
In Bridgeport, 13.5% of residents are 65 or over. Across the 91 towns Endurance serves, that share runs from 10.2% to 32.9%, with a median of 18.3%. Bridgeport sits below that middle.
Every figure on this scale comes from the same census release read for the same kind of geography, so the towns are comparable with each other. It is not a state or national ranking.
Questions families ask
Who provides home care in Bridgeport, CT?
Endurance Home Care provides home care in Bridgeport, CT: personal care, companion care, homemaking, medication reminders, and hospital to home support, under Connecticut Homemaker Companion Agency registration HCA.0002450. An estimated 20,406 Bridgeport residents are 65 or over, the largest senior population of any town the agency serves.
Which hospitals does hospital to home care support in Bridgeport?
Both of Bridgeport's hospitals. Endurance Homebound, the agency's transition program for the first 72 hours after discharge, supports families coming home from Bridgeport Hospital at 267 Grant Street and St. Vincent's Medical Center at 2800 Main Street with meals, reminders, safety supervision, and rides to follow ups.
Is there paratransit in Bridgeport?
Yes. GBT Access paratransit buses serve the area within three quarters of a mile of GBT bus routes, which generally includes all of Bridgeport. For trips paratransit cannot cover, Endurance caregivers provide door through door transportation as part of care visits.
The beacon at the harbor mouth turns for every boat coming in, not the expensive ones.
Home care in this city and the rest of Fairfield County, Connecticut, from one Stamford office with a state licence you can look up.
Call (203) 936-6847