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Role

AI for Home Health Aides

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

Home Health Aides · O*NET 31-1121.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

11 of 19tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

25 matched to the tools home health aides use. Showing 24.

The tools this job actually uses

19 documented for this occupation. Showing 19, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Linuxhot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft SharePointhot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Oracle Databasehot
  • Pythonhot
  • Salesforce softwarehot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • UNIXhot
  • AIGHD OASIS
  • FaceTime
  • Mi-Co software
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

17 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 17.

  1. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
  2. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
  3. Bathe patients.
  4. 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.
  5. Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
  6. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
  7. Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
  8. Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.
  9. Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
  10. 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.
  11. Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
  12. Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
  13. Change dressings.
  14. Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
  15. Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
  16. Assist patients with toileting and incontinent care.
  17. Feed patients.
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