.Westend61/Getty Photos. Girls accounted for 87% of all home health aides and also 80% of personal care assistants in 2015, the Division of Work’s Agency of Effort Stats reported Wednesday. Whereas employees in each tasks help individuals along with tasks of regular living, home health and wellness assistants pay attention to health and wellness as well as personal care assistants commonly support along with broader duties, including managing tasks and also housekeeping chores, the agency revealed.
Aides more than likely are aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born employees make up 41.9% of home care assistants as well as 27.2% of personal assistants, depending on to BLS. More than half of home wellness as well as private treatment aides are actually white– 53.3% and 61.8%, respectively. Dark employees comprise 29.8% of the home health and wellness workforce as well as 25.3% of individual treatment assistants.
Asians make up a little amount of employees in both jobs: 14% of home health assistants as well as 19% of individual care aides, the bureau stated. The report likewise covered the amount of home wellness and also personal care assistants by state. The big apple possesses a higher amount of home wellness and individual treatment assistants compared to the national average.
In May 2023, 60 out of every 1,000 jobs in The big apple remained in the home health and wellness and also personal assistant jobs compared to the national average of 24 away from every 1,000 work. Other states along with high shares of home health and also personal care assistants were California (44 every 1,000 jobs), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 projects) and Minnesota (39 per 1,000 work). By contrast, home health and wellness and also private care aides represented 8 away from every 1,000 jobs in Fla, South Dakota and Utah..
The estimates carry out certainly not feature self-employed workers, the BLS took note.