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Home Health Aides
Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.Mostly human for now
- 02Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.Mostly human for now
- 03Bathe patients.Mostly human for now
- 04Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.Mostly human for now
- 06Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.Mostly human for now
- 07Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.Mostly human for now
- 08Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.Mostly human for now
- 09Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.Mostly human for now
- 10Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss8%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 63% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.