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Home Health and Personal Care Aides
Also filed here: Home care, Elder care, Personal care aide, Nanny, Aaya
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 18.1% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
- Rank
- #415 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +18.1% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $35,800 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 4.7 million in the US, with about 760,500 openings a year
The work, 16 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Assist individuals with special needs22%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Administer basic health care or medical treatments14%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Train others on health or medical topics13%
AI performed this in about 1 in 1,890 Copilot conversations and completed it 95% of the time.
AI helps with this: Prepare foods or beverages6%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 859 conversations, and it got them there 91% of the time.
Still yours: Prepare health or medical documents5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain operational records5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain health or medical records5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Monitor health conditions of humans or animals5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Escort others4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Counsel others about personal matters4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,845 conversations, and it got them there 87% of the time.
Still yours: Develop organizational or program goals or objectives4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment options3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Teach life skills2%
AI performed this in about 1 in 756 Copilot conversations and completed it 94% of the time.
Still yours: Operate transportation equipment or vehicles2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Administer therapeutic treatments2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 118 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 760,500 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
Jobs that share the most work with this one, where AI does less of it.
- Shares 42% of the workNursing Assistants3% AI does, against 16% here+2.6% by 2035 · $42,260 · Postsecondary certificate
- Shares 40% of the workPhysical Therapist Assistants3% AI does, against 16% here+23% by 2035 · $68,380 · Associate’s degree
- Shares 39% of the workVeterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers8% AI does, against 16% here+9.1% by 2035 · $38,150 · High school diploma
The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Health front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.05, higher than 12% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 31-1120 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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