.Westend61/Getty Pictures. Women made up 87% of all home wellness aides and also 80% of individual care aides in 2015, the Department of Labor’s Agency of Labor Statistics mentioned Wednesday. Whereas employees in each roles aid individuals with tasks of everyday living, home health aides focus on health and wellness and private care assistants often assist along with broader activities, such as running assignments as well as housekeeping jobs, the agency indicated.
Assistants more than likely are aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born employees make up 41.9% of home treatment aides and 27.2% of private aides, depending on to BLS. More than half of home health and wellness and also personal care assistants are actually white– 53.3% as well as 61.8%, respectively. Black laborers comprise 29.8% of the home health staff and 25.3% of individual care aides.
Asians compose a tiny percentage of laborers in both line of work: 14% of home health and wellness aides and 19% of private treatment aides, the bureau said. The document likewise covered the lot of home health and also personal care assistants by state. New york city has a high lot of home health and also individual treatment aides compared with the nationwide standard.
In May 2023, 60 away from every 1,000 tasks in New York were in the home health and wellness as well as personal aide occupations compared to the national standard of 24 away from every 1,000 jobs. Various other conditions with higher portions of home health and wellness and private care aides were The golden state (44 every 1,000 jobs), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 jobs) as well as Minnesota (39 every 1,000 work). By comparison, home wellness as well as individual treatment aides represented 8 away from every 1,000 projects in Florida, South Dakota and also Utah..
The estimates perform certainly not feature self-employed laborers, the BLS noted.