.Westend61/Getty Graphics. Women made up 87% of all home health aides and 80% of personal treatment aides last year, the Department of Work’s Bureau of Work Statistics mentioned Wednesday. Whereas employees in each jobs support people along with tasks of daily living, home health and wellness assistants focus on health and safety and private treatment assistants typically aid with broader tasks, including managing assignments as well as housekeeping jobs, the bureau mentioned.
Assistants likely are actually aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born employees represent 41.9% of home care aides as well as 27.2% of personal assistants, according to BLS. Over half of home wellness as well as private treatment assistants are actually white– 53.3% and 61.8%, specifically. Dark employees compose 29.8% of the home health workforce and also 25.3% of individual treatment aides.
Asians comprise a tiny percentage of workers in both jobs: 14% of home health and wellness aides as well as 19% of personal care assistants, the bureau pointed out. The file likewise reviewed the number of home wellness and also private treatment assistants by state. The big apple has a high variety of home wellness and personal care aides compared to the national average.
In May 2023, 60 away from every 1,000 tasks in The big apple resided in the home health and also private aide line of work compared to the national standard of 24 away from every 1,000 tasks. Various other conditions along with higher shares of home health and wellness as well as private treatment aides were The golden state (44 per 1,000 jobs), New Mexico (43 every 1,000 tasks) and Minnesota (39 every 1,000 jobs). Through contrast, home health and wellness and also individual care aides made up 8 out of every 1,000 tasks in Fla, South Dakota and Utah..
The estimates do not feature freelance laborers, the BLS noted.