Home care aide
Code 5322.1
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- disability care
- older adults' needs
- disability types
Skills and competences
- Proporcionar formación y soporte técnico a los usuarios en el ámbito de la salud
- keep company
- apply first response
- assist disable passengers
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- assist clients with special needs
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- support social service users to live at home
- buy groceries
- tend to elderly people
- prepare sandwiches
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- accompany people
- make the beds
- wash the laundry
- wash the dishes
- iron textiles
- prepare ready-made dishes
- monitor patient's health condition
Transversal competences
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- first response
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences