.Westend61/Getty Photos. Girls made up 87% of all home health and wellness aides and 80% of individual treatment assistants in 2014, the Department of Labor’s Agency of Work Statistics stated Wednesday. Whereas laborers in both tasks aid people with activities of day-to-day living, home wellness aides focus on health and wellness and private treatment assistants frequently assist with broader activities, such as operating duties as well as housekeeping tasks, the agency explained.
Assistants more than likely are aged 25 to 54 years foreign-born employees account for 41.9% of home treatment assistants and 27.2% of personal assistants, according to BLS. Majority of home wellness and private treatment assistants are white colored– 53.3% and 61.8%, respectively. Black workers comprise 29.8% of the home wellness staff and also 25.3% of personal treatment aides.
Asians comprise a small percentage of employees in each line of work: 14% of home health and wellness assistants and also 19% of individual treatment aides, the bureau mentioned. The document additionally discussed the lot of home health and wellness as well as individual care assistants through condition. The big apple has a higher lot of home health and wellness and also individual care aides compared to the national standard.
In May 2023, 60 out of every 1,000 jobs in New York resided in the home health and also individual assistant occupations compared with the nationwide average of 24 out of every 1,000 tasks. Other conditions with higher reveals of home health and wellness and personal care aides were actually California (44 every 1,000 work), New Mexico (43 every 1,000 jobs) as well as Minnesota (39 every 1,000 tasks). Through contrast, home health and personal care aides accounted for 8 away from every 1,000 tasks in Florida, South Dakota and Utah..
The estimates do certainly not consist of freelance employees, the BLS noted.