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.
Also called: personal care provider, elderly people assistant, personal care attendant, live in caretaker, personal care worker, live in caregiver
- 23
- essential skills
- 27
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- companion7 skills in common
- disability support worker5 skills in common
- care home worker4 skills in common
- domestic cleaner4 skills in common
- domestic housekeeper4 skills in common
- rehabilitation support worker4 skills in common
- adult community care worker3 skills in common
- residential home older adult care worker3 skills in common
Essential skills
23- accompany people
- apply first response
- assist clients with special needs
- assist disable passengers
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- buy groceries
- disability care
- disability types
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- first response
- iron textiles
- keep company
- make the beds
- monitor patient's health condition
- older adults' needs
- prepare ready-made dishes
- prepare sandwiches
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- support social service users to live at home
- tend to elderly people
- wash the dishes
- wash the laundry
Optional skills
27- administer appointments
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- assess risks for the elderly
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- clean household linens
- clean rooms
- clean surfaces
- communicate with customers
- feed pets
- food allergies
- handle linen in stock
- hearing disability
- lift heavy weights
- listen actively
- mobility disability
- prepare dietary meals
- prevent domestic accidents
- promote healthy lifestyle
- promote prevention of social isolation
- provide dog walking services
- provide first aid
- remove dust
- use cooking techniques
- use food preparation techniques
- vacuum surfaces
- visual disability
- work ergonomically
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