Kin HoursTell us about your family

You handle Mom or Dad's healthcare. We're trying to make some of that paid work.

Some programs pay for care. Others cover a ride, equipment, or work on the home. We want to find what might fit your family.

Tell us about your family
A daughter and her father reviewing a calendar at their kitchen table

63 million Americans now care for a family member.

More adult children are managing a parent's care while keeping their own jobs.

The number of family caregivers grew nearly 50 percent between 2015 and 2025, according to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving. Among working-age caregivers, seven in ten were in the workforce. For many families, the work extends well beyond an appointment: pulling records, sorting out prescriptions, making follow-up calls, and helping a parent understand what comes next.

One daughter we interviewed was managing a team in Silicon Valley when her mother's cancer returned in Los Angeles. For a year, she flew down every month, sat beside her mother at City of Hope, then flew back and caught up at work. Eventually, she changed jobs and moved home.

Caregiving in the U.S. 2025, AARP and National Alliance for Caregiving

For a year, one daughter we interviewed flew home for her mother's cancer appointments. Then she changed jobs and moved back.

She was managing a team at a technology company in Silicon Valley when her mother's cancer returned. Her mother lived in Arcadia and went to City of Hope each month. She spoke English and could get to appointments on her own. But difficult medical news was hard to hear alone. The daughter's father had died years before, and the two women had little family in Los Angeles.

A daughter flies to Los Angeles and sits beside her mother at an appointment
Once a month: leave work, fly to Los Angeles, sit through the appointment, fly north, catch up.

This was before remote work was common. Her company let her work from Los Angeles one day a month. The arrangement still left her tired from the travel, distracted at work, and guilty each time she left her mother.

“I think it was really hard to be half in, half out.”

After about a year, she found a job in Los Angeles and moved home. Her mother lived with stage four cancer for seven or eight years. She helped manage appointments and treatments while carrying much of the emotional load. When her mother's care shifted to hospice, they chose to receive it at home. She had to learn what that meant as they went.

This might be you.

A family member on the phone while keeping notes and an appointment calendar

I run the healthcare.

I book the appointments, get the records, chase referrals, translate, and make sure someone calls back.

A paid role we are trying to build

Kin Hours is working on a paid role for clinician-assigned follow-up. We are not hiring yet.

Pay and hours are not set.

A daughter steadying her father as he stands beside the family table

I handle the day-to-day care.

I help with meals, bathing, walking, the bathroom, medication reminders, or staying safe.

An existing program may pay

Programs such as California IHSS may pay a family member for daily care after the county approves the tasks and hours.

Los Angeles example: $19.64 × approved hours. Forty hours in a month is about $786 before taxes.

A family reviewing a bathroom grab bar and safer entryway at home

I handle the rides and changes at home.

I arrange rides, equipment, grab bars, ramps, or a safe trip home.

The cost may be covered

Medi-Cal and other programs may cover eligible transportation, equipment, or home changes. They generally do not pay the family member for arranging them.

One California home-modification benefit has a $7,500 lifetime cap for approved work. It is not cash paid to the family.

IHSS wage sourceMedi-Cal transportationHome modifications

We want to figure this out with you.

  1. 1

    Tell us what you handle.

    Calls, appointments, daily care, rides, equipment, home changes. Start with what happened this week.

  2. 2

    We check what may fit.

    Medicare, Medi-Cal, VA benefits, local programs, and the paid navigation role we are trying to build.

  3. 3

    We tell you what we found.

    Which programs may fit, who makes the decision, and what you need to do next.

What are you handling for your family right now?

We are starting with families in California. Tell us what you handle and how often. We will email you if we can include you in the next round.

Which work sounds closest to yours?
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Questions

Is Kin Hours hiring now?

No. We are talking with families and building the first pilot.

Does Medicare pay a family member directly?

No. If Medicare covers the service, it pays the clinical practice. The practice pays its employee a wage.

Could I be paid for work I already did?

Medicare would only cover future work in a clinician's care plan. Other programs have their own rules.

What if I do hands-on care or make the home safer?

That may fit a different program. IHSS may pay an eligible family caregiver. Medi-Cal may cover an eligible ride, piece of equipment, or home change.