.Westend61/Getty Images. Women made up 87% of all home wellness aides as well as 80% of personal treatment assistants in 2014, the Division of Effort’s Bureau of Labor Stats mentioned Wednesday. Whereas workers in both jobs assist people along with activities of daily residing, home wellness aides concentrate on health and wellness and also personal treatment aides commonly support with more comprehensive jobs, including operating duties as well as housekeeping duties, the agency explained.
Assistants likely are actually aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born laborers account for 41.9% of home care aides and also 27.2% of private aides, depending on to BLS. Over half of home wellness and private care assistants are actually white– 53.3% and also 61.8%, respectively. Black workers make up 29.8% of the home health and wellness labor force and 25.3% of private care aides.
Asians compose a small percent of laborers in each occupations: 14% of home health assistants as well as 19% of individual treatment aides, the bureau claimed. The file additionally discussed the number of home wellness and personal treatment assistants by state. New York has a high amount of home health and personal care aides compared to the nationwide standard.
In May 2023, 60 out of every 1,000 projects in New York remained in the home wellness and also personal aide line of work compared to the nationwide average of 24 away from every 1,000 jobs. Other states with higher shares of home wellness as well as personal care assistants were The golden state (44 per 1,000 projects), New Mexico (43 per 1,000 tasks) and also Minnesota (39 every 1,000 tasks). By contrast, home health and individual care assistants represented 8 away from every 1,000 tasks in Florida, South Dakota as well as Utah..
The estimates perform certainly not feature independent employees, the BLS noted.