home care aide

Home care aides provide personal assistance and promote autonomy, on a daily basis to individuals who are unable to take care of themselves due to illness, ageing or disability. They assist them with personal hygiene, feeding, communication or medication according to the health care professional's instructions.

The most in-demand skills for this role include disability care, older adults' needs, disability types, first response, wash the laundry, apply first response. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives home care aide a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.