.Westend61/Getty Pictures. Females made up 87% of all home health aides and also 80% of individual treatment aides in 2013, the Team of Labor’s Agency of Effort Studies stated Wednesday. Whereas employees in each jobs support individuals along with activities of daily living, home health and wellness aides concentrate on health and safety as well as individual care assistants usually support along with more comprehensive tasks, including operating tasks and housekeeping chores, the agency mentioned.
Assistants more than likely are aged 25 to 54 years foreign workers make up 41.9% of home treatment aides as well as 27.2% of individual aides, according to BLS. Over half of home wellness as well as personal treatment aides are white– 53.3% as well as 61.8%, respectively. Dark laborers compose 29.8% of the home health workforce and also 25.3% of private care aides.
Asians comprise a small portion of laborers in both jobs: 14% of home health and wellness assistants and 19% of personal treatment assistants, the bureau said. The record also discussed the amount of home wellness and also individual treatment aides by condition. Nyc possesses a high amount of home wellness as well as private treatment aides compared to the national standard.
In May 2023, 60 away from every 1,000 projects in The big apple were in the home health and also private assistant professions compared to the national average of 24 out of every 1,000 projects. Various other conditions along with high reveals of home wellness and also personal care aides were California (44 per 1,000 tasks), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 work) and Minnesota (39 every 1,000 work). By contrast, home wellness and also individual care assistants accounted for 8 out of every 1,000 tasks in Florida, South Dakota as well as Utah..
The estimates do certainly not include independent laborers, the BLS took note.