Home Health Aide

Duties and responsibilities:

Home health aides usually work for companies that provide in-home assistance to ill, injured, elderly, or disabled customers.  Their duties include taking the blood pressure, temperature, and pulse of patients.  They help patients get in and out of bed, take baths, and dress.  They also prepare and serve meals as well as perform housekeeping chores like making beds and cleaning rooms.

 

Salary: $8,000-$18,000

Education: Most employers prefer that nursing assistants and aides have a high school diploma or GED certificate.  Some vocational schools and community colleges offer training programs. 

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be a home health aide? Why? Why not?

I wouldn’t mind being an home health aide because I would just have to help another elder with anything they need.