.Westend61/Getty Graphics. Girls represented 87% of all home health and wellness assistants and also 80% of individual treatment aides in 2014, the Division of Work’s Agency of Effort Data mentioned Wednesday. Whereas workers in both jobs support people with activities of everyday lifestyle, home health and wellness aides concentrate on health and safety and also personal care assistants commonly support with more comprehensive tasks, including running errands as well as housekeeping jobs, the agency pointed out.
Aides most likely are actually aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born employees represent 41.9% of home care aides and 27.2% of individual assistants, according to BLS. Over half of home wellness and also individual treatment aides are white– 53.3% and also 61.8%, respectively. Dark laborers make up 29.8% of the home health and wellness staff as well as 25.3% of individual care assistants.
Asians make up a little percentage of workers in both jobs: 14% of home wellness aides and also 19% of private treatment assistants, the bureau pointed out. The document additionally covered the number of home wellness and personal treatment aides by condition. New York has a higher amount of home wellness as well as individual treatment aides compared with the national average.
In May 2023, 60 out of every 1,000 tasks in New york city remained in the home wellness and also personal assistant occupations compared to the national standard of 24 out of every 1,000 work. Various other conditions with high portions of home health and wellness and private treatment assistants were actually The golden state (44 per 1,000 jobs), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 work) and also Minnesota (39 per 1,000 tasks). By contrast, home health and individual treatment assistants made up 8 out of every 1,000 tasks in Florida, South Dakota as well as Utah..
The estimates perform certainly not consist of freelance workers, the BLS noted.