Living will.
A living will is a written statement of the medical treatments your parent would or would not want if they were dying or permanently unable to decide.
A living will speaks for your parent when they cannot. It typically addresses situations like a terminal illness or a permanent loss of awareness, and it says how far to go with things like breathing machines, feeding tubes, and resuscitation.
It is a statement of wishes, not a medical order. Clinicians read it as guidance, and a healthcare proxy usually uses it to make the actual calls in real time. A POLST, by contrast, is a signed order that emergency staff follow directly.
A living will is often bundled with the naming of a healthcare proxy into a single advance directive. Together they cover both what your parent wants and who gets to say so.
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.