.Westend61/Getty Graphics. Ladies made up 87% of all home health and wellness assistants and 80% of individual care assistants in 2015, the Team of Work’s Bureau of Work Stats stated Wednesday. Whereas laborers in each parts aid individuals with tasks of daily residing, home wellness assistants focus on health and safety and also personal care assistants typically help along with broader jobs, including operating duties and also housekeeping jobs, the agency explained.
Aides more than likely are actually aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born workers account for 41.9% of home care assistants and also 27.2% of personal assistants, according to BLS. More than half of home health and also individual care assistants are actually white colored– 53.3% and 61.8%, specifically. Black laborers comprise 29.8% of the home health workforce and also 25.3% of private treatment aides.
Asians make up a tiny percent of employees in both professions: 14% of home wellness assistants as well as 19% of individual care assistants, the bureau said. The file additionally went over the amount of home wellness and also personal treatment assistants by state. New york city has a higher variety of home wellness and also personal treatment assistants compared to the national standard.
In May 2023, 60 out of every 1,000 work in New york city resided in the home health and also personal aide professions compared to the national average of 24 out of every 1,000 tasks. Various other conditions along with high shares of home health and also personal treatment assistants were California (44 every 1,000 tasks), New Mexico (43 every 1,000 jobs) and also Minnesota (39 per 1,000 projects). By comparison, home health and private treatment assistants accounted for 8 out of every 1,000 tasks in Florida, South Dakota and also Utah..
The estimates carry out not feature freelance laborers, the BLS noted.