Home care in Ridgefield, CT for staying put at home
We built this after taking care of our own grandmother, and it still runs that way.
- Office
- 60 Long Ridge Rd, Suite #214, Stamford, CT
- Client support
- (203) 936-6847
- License
- HCA.0002450
Endurance Home Care provides home care in Ridgefield, CT, where about 19% of residents, an estimated 4,817 people, are 65 or older.
Chris and Tom Weldon
Why the agency exists
Endurance Home Care is a family business. Brothers Chris and Tom Weldon started it after caring for their own grandmother, who was living with dementia, and learning first hand how hard it is to find help that behaves like help. That is still how the agency is run. Families here tend to call about a parent who has been in the same house for decades and fully intends to stay in it, and the work is built around that intention rather than around talking anyone out of it.
Who answers when you call
The office is at 60 Long Ridge Rd, Suite #214 in Stamford, and the Client Support Line is (203) 936-6847. Endurance is registered with the Connecticut as a Connecticut License, registration HCA.0002450. The care is daily-living throughout. Caregivers support, coordinate, remind, accompany, and supervise. They do not diagnose, treat, assess, or administer anything, and the registration is a state filing rather than an endorsement of anybody.
How care is scheduled in the house
Hourly visits
A few hours on the mornings that go badly, or the afternoons nobody in the family can cover. You name the hours that are hard and they get staffed.
Company, then hands on help
Conversation and a second person in the house first. Bathing, dressing, and getting safely from room to room when the body, and not the day, is the harder part.
The house and the errands
Laundry, light housekeeping, a kitchen that stays usable, groceries, and rides to appointments. Caregivers also give medication reminders: a prompt at the right hour, never administering anything.
Up to around the clock
Hours scale to full 24/7 live in coverage without changing agencies and without starting over with new faces in the house.
Most households in town start with one of these and add another when something changes. The hands on version is personal care at home; the version aimed at the house itself is homemaking and housekeeping help; and when the real problem is that the days are too quiet, it is companionship at home.
What the town already covers, and what it does not
The town is better supplied with free senior services than most around it, which changes the question families here are actually asking. Founders Hall, the town’s nonprofit senior center at 193 Danbury Road, runs academic, wellness, and arts programs for adults 60 and older. Meals on Wheels has delivered meals since 1974 to any resident who cannot prepare their own, free of charge. Between the two of them a good deal of an ordinary week is already handled, and it costs a household nothing.
What they do not cover is the hour somebody needs help getting out of bed, the ride that has to happen on a Tuesday at two, the night nobody should spend alone, and the house itself. That is the part a caregiver is for. Call Founders Hall and Meals on Wheels first. Call us for what is left over.
Founders Hall
193 Danbury Road
Nonprofit senior center for adults 60 and older. Academic, wellness, and arts programs.
Meals on Wheels
Delivering since 1974
Free meals for any resident who cannot prepare their own.
About 19 percent of the town, an estimated 4,686 of 25,109 residents, is 65 or older.
American Community Survey, 2023 five year estimates. One of the older towns Endurance serves, and the reason so many houses here are being run by one person who is tired.
Connecticut License HCA.0002450 · New Jersey License HP0435100 · Connecticut DPH License 9915786 (Endurance Home Health). 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.
Coming home from Danbury Hospital
A discharge here usually comes from Danbury Hospital on Hospital Avenue, and the drive home is the easy part of that day. The first 72 hours inside the house are not. Endurance Homebound is built for exactly that window, when the discharge paperwork is still fresh, nobody has thought about the stairs yet, and the household is running on adrenaline and a folder of instructions.
Starting is one call to the Client Support Line at (203) 936-6847, then a caregiver matched to the household on a schedule you set. If the call is easier to make in writing, set up a free consultation instead.
In Ridgefield, 18.7% 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%. Ridgefield sits at or above 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 here ask
Who offers home care in Ridgefield, CT?
Endurance Home Care offers home care in Ridgefield, CT as a Connecticut registered Homemaker Companion Agency, HCA.0002450. The agency was founded by brothers Chris and Tom Weldon, who saw the need for high quality home care while caring for their own grandmother with dementia. Hourly, companion, and 24/7 live in care are available.
What free senior resources exist in Ridgefield?
Ridgefield seniors have unusually strong free resources. Meals on Wheels of Ridgefield has delivered meals since 1974 to any resident who cannot prepare their own, all free of charge. Founders Hall, the nonprofit senior center at 193 Danbury Road, offers adults 60 plus academic, wellness, and arts programs.
Do you offer hourly home care in Ridgefield?
Yes. Hourly home care in Ridgefield covers what a family needs most on a given day: morning routines, meal preparation, errands, rides to appointments, and check in visits. Hours scale up to full 24/7 live in coverage without changing agencies.
Founders Hall covers the mornings. We cover the rest of the day.
Home care here in Fairfield County, Connecticut, from an agency registered with the state as a Connecticut License, HCA.0002450.
Call (203) 936-6847