Assisted living.
Assisted living is housing where your parent lives in their own apartment but gets help with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, meals, and medications.
Assisted living sits between living independently and a nursing home. Your parent has their own space, but staff are there to help with ADLs, serve meals, manage medications, and keep an eye on things, with social activities built in.
It is a good fit when a parent is mostly well but no longer safe living alone, whether from falls, memory changes, or trouble keeping up with daily tasks. It is not set up for heavy medical needs, which is where a skilled nursing facility comes in.
It is usually paid for privately or through a long-term care policy; regular Medicare does not cover the rent. Many communities have a separate memory care wing for parents with dementia.
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.