April 25, 2010
Home health aides help the disabled, chronically ill and elderly with daily living
Outlook: Employment of home health aides is expected to increase 50 percent over the 2008-18 decade, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Pay: The 4,180 home health aides in the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area earned a median wage of $23,150 in 2008.
The job: Light housekeeping, preparing meals and bathing and dressing clients are among the duties of those who help the disabled, chronically ill and older adults live in their own homes or in residential facilities. Aides may work with one client each day or five or six clients once a day every week. It can be physically demanding to move clients.
Training/licensing: Aides are usually trained on the job. Those who work in facilities that receive reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid must take a competency exam to be certified.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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James Morgan - Puritan Financial Advisor on September 8, 2010 11:05 PM | Reply
Aides may work with one client each day or five or six clients once a day every week. It can be physically demanding to move clients.