00Term

Glossary

Respite care.

Respite care is short-term care for your parent that gives you, the regular caregiver, a break.

The point of respite care is you. It covers your parent's needs for a few hours, a weekend, or a couple of weeks so you can rest, work, travel, or handle your own health without leaving them alone.

It can happen in your parent's home with a paid caregiver, at an adult day program, or as a short overnight stay in an assisted living or nursing facility. The care is the same kind your parent gets day to day; only the length is short.

Families often wait too long to use it. Booking a regular break before you are exhausted is usually easier than arranging emergency coverage after you burn out.

§Kinbase

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.

§Get started

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.

§Get the app
Open Kinbase on the webapp.kinbasecare.com · nothing to install

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.