.Westend61/Getty Pictures. Women accounted for 87% of all home health aides as well as 80% of individual treatment assistants in 2014, the Division of Labor’s Bureau of Effort Statistics reported Wednesday. Whereas workers in both tasks help individuals with tasks of regular living, home health and wellness aides pay attention to health and safety as well as individual care aides frequently assist with more comprehensive duties, such as operating duties and also housekeeping jobs, the bureau indicated.
Assistants most likely are aged 25 to 54 years foreign employees account for 41.9% of home care aides as well as 27.2% of private assistants, depending on to BLS. More than half of home wellness as well as private treatment aides are white colored– 53.3% and 61.8%, specifically. Black employees compose 29.8% of the home health workforce as well as 25.3% of personal care aides.
Asians make up a little amount of workers in both jobs: 14% of home wellness assistants and 19% of personal care assistants, the bureau stated. The report additionally went over the lot of home health and wellness as well as private care aides by condition. Nyc has a high amount of home health and also personal care assistants compared with the national average.
In May 2023, 60 away from every 1,000 jobs in The big apple remained in the home health and wellness and private assistant professions compared to the nationwide average of 24 away from every 1,000 tasks. Other conditions with high reveals of home health and wellness and private care assistants were The golden state (44 per 1,000 projects), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 jobs) and also Minnesota (39 every 1,000 work). By contrast, home health as well as individual care assistants accounted for 8 out of every 1,000 projects in Fla, South Dakota and Utah..
The estimations carry out not consist of freelance employees, the BLS noted.