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Healthcare Support · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
56/100
Moderate

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
54/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence79/100
Task coverage81%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.High
68
Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.High
70
Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.High
58
Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.High
65
Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.High
59
Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.Medium
71
Provide 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.Medium
56
Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.Medium
61
Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.Medium
54
Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.Medium
58
Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.High
25
Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.Medium
24
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.71
  2. Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.70
  3. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.68
  4. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.65
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.01
  2. Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.02
  3. Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.03
  4. Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.04
  5. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency41
Physical dependency43
Adoption pressure36
Labour-market resilience61
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence79/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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