In-home caregiver (private duty).
An in-home or private duty caregiver is a paid aide who comes to your parent's home to help with daily tasks, usually paid for privately rather than by insurance.
A private duty caregiver is hired to help your parent at home with the non-medical parts of the day: bathing, dressing, meals, medication reminders, light housekeeping, company, and rides. Private duty means the family pays directly, rather than it being ordered and covered as medical care.
You can hire through an agency, which handles screening, backup coverage, and payroll, or directly, which usually costs less but puts the hiring, taxes, and scheduling on you. Each has trade-offs worth weighing.
This is the backbone of keeping many parents at home. Because these aides are not nurses, medical tasks still fall to home health or the doctor, and it helps to be clear about what an aide can and cannot do.
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.