Advance directive.
An advance directive is a legal document where your parent writes down their wishes for medical care and names who should decide if they cannot.
An advance directive is the umbrella term. In most states it combines two things: a living will, which states what treatments your parent would or would not want, and the naming of a healthcare proxy, the person who speaks for them.
It takes effect only when your parent can no longer make or communicate their own decisions. As long as they can speak for themselves, their own voice comes first.
Your parent fills it out while they still have capacity; a lawyer is not required in most states. Once it is signed, give copies to the proxy, the doctors, and the hospital, and keep one where the family can reach it quickly.
Where Kinbase fits
Terms like this one show up in real weeks, in a discharge folder or a doctor’s offhand remark. Kinbase gives your family one place to keep what you learn about your parent’s care, so the next person helping is not starting from scratch.
Start your family’s record.
Name the book, invite the people who help, and the record starts keeping itself. Most families are set up inside ten minutes.
Free for families to start. Everyone you invite joins from a link or by scanning a code, and nobody has to install anything to read or write.