Durable power of attorney.
A durable power of attorney is a legal document letting your parent name someone to handle their finances or affairs, and it stays in effect if they lose the ability to decide.
A power of attorney names an agent to act for your parent. The word durable is the important part: it means the authority continues even if your parent later becomes incapacitated, which is exactly when families need it most. A plain power of attorney can end at that point.
Most families use a durable POA for finances: paying bills, managing accounts, dealing with insurance and benefits. A separate document, often called a healthcare power of attorney or healthcare proxy, covers medical decisions.
It has to be signed while your parent still has the capacity to understand it. Once they lose that ability, it is usually too late, and the family may have to go to court for guardianship instead. Setting one up early is far simpler.
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.