Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a home care aide can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a home care aide already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Home care aides provide personal assistance and promote autonomy, on a daily basis to individuals who are unable to take care of themselves due to illness, ageing or disability. They assist them with personal hygiene, feeding, communication or medication according to the health care professional's instructions.

Also known as elderly people assistant, personal care provider, personal care attendant, live in caretaker, personal care worker, live in caregiver.

Service and sales workers 50 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: companion, 81%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
companion 81% covered domestic cleaner 47% covered domestic housekeeper 35% covered babysitter 29% covered au pair 22% covered home care aide You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from home care aide, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a home care aide already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A home care aide needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • monitor patient's health condition information skills
  • keep company assisting and caring
  • wash the dishes handling and moving
  • provide in-home support for disabled individuals assisting and caring
  • accompany people assisting and caring
  • make the beds handling and moving
  • tend to elderly people assisting and caring
  • wash the laundry handling and moving
  • support individuals to adjust to physical disability assisting and caring
  • buy groceries communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a home care aide does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Home care aide is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a home care aide’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.