Durable medical equipment.
Durable medical equipment, or DME, is reusable medical gear for home use, such as walkers, wheelchairs, hospital beds, and oxygen equipment.
Durable medical equipment is the physical gear that helps your parent stay safe and mobile at home: walkers, canes, wheelchairs, hospital beds, commodes, oxygen concentrators, and similar items built to be used again over time.
When a doctor prescribes it as medically necessary, Medicare and other insurance may cover much of the cost, often through approved suppliers. The rules on what qualifies and which supplier to use can be particular, so it is worth confirming before you buy.
Simple equipment can make a real difference in whether a parent can manage at home. A discharge planner or home health team can point you to what is needed and how to get it.
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.