Home care vs. home health.
Home care is non-medical help with daily life; home health is skilled medical care ordered by a doctor and often covered by insurance for a limited time.
Home care means help with the ordinary parts of the day: bathing, dressing, meals, light housekeeping, company, and rides. The people who provide it are aides and companions, not nurses, and families usually pay out of pocket or through a long-term care policy.
Home health is medical. A doctor orders it, and licensed clinicians deliver it: a nurse for wound care or medication teaching, a physical therapist after a fall, an occupational or speech therapist. Medicare or other insurance often covers it, but only while your parent is considered homebound and making progress, so it tends to be short-term.
Many parents need both at once. Sorting which is which matters because it decides who is qualified, who pays, and how long the help lasts.
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.