Jobs / Healthcare / 31-1121.00
Home Health Aides
Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
- US jobs
- Not reported by BLS
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of home health aides?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 37%Assist individuals with special needsNot measured
- 14%Train others on health or medical topicsNot measured
- 11%Escort othersNot measured
- 10%Administer basic health care or medical treatmentsNot measured
- 9%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 8%Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment optionsNot measured
- 7%Teach life skillsNot measured
- 4%Administer therapeutic treatmentsNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
Other job titles for this occupation (31)
Caregiver · CHHA (Certified Home Health Aide) · CMA (Certified Medical Aide) · CNA (Certified Nurses Aide) · Direct Care Professional · Home Care Aide · Home Health Provider · Hospice Aide · In Home Caregiver · Residential Assistant (RA) · Care Worker · Companion · Day Support Professional (DSP) · Digital Health Caregiver · Direct Care Worker · Direct Support Professional (DSP) · Health Care Assistant · Home Attendant · Home Care Attendant · Home Care Giver · Home Care Provider · Home Health Attendant · Home Health Care Provider · Home Health Preventative Aide · Home Help Aide · Home Hospice Aide · Home Provider · Resident Care Aide · Resident Care Associate (RCA) · Resident Care Provider · Residential Aide