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Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping, QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| home-care-aide | Occupational skill for the role 'home care aide' (also: elderly people assistant, personal care provider, personal care attendant, live in caretaker, personal care worker, live in caregiver). Use when the user asks for typical home care aide work such as: Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.; Bathe patients.; Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager. |
Home Care Aide
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.
Core workflow
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- 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.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
Key competences (essential)
- accompany people
- apply first response
- assist clients with special needs
- assist disable passengers
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- buy groceries
- disability care
- disability types
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- first response
- iron textiles
- keep company
- make the beds
- monitor patient's health condition
- older adults' needs
Hot technologies
- Salesforce software
- Microsoft Access
- Oracle Database
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- SAP software
- Python
- Microsoft Office software
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1391bdf9-bd61-4fb5-91ca-c29036ab2b60), ONET 30.3 (31-1121.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*