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Major Group

Service and Sales Workers

Sub-Major Group

Education and Social Services Workers

Minor Group

532

Personal Care Workers in Health Services

Unit Group

5322

Home-Based Personal Care Workers

Small Unit Group

MASCO Code

5322-10

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Worker, Home Care

Worker, Home Care provide routine personal care and assistance with activities of daily living to persons in need of such care due to the effects of ageing, illness, injury or other physical or mental conditions in private homes and other residential settings.

Alternative Names

Assistant, Day Care: Aged

Assistant, Day Care: Disabled

Birth Assistant (Home)

Care Aide (Home)

Companion, aged care

Helper, Aged Care

Nursing Aide (Home)

Personal Care Provider

Tasks

assisting elderly or disabled people with daily activities at their home or in care centres.

bathing, dressing, moving patients, helping them to use the toilet, eat and walk

lightening housework, preparing meals, taking medications, shopping for groceries and clothes, using the telephone and managing money that enable the patient to live independently in the community

helping with daily tasks such as meal preparation, medication reminders, laundry, light housekeeping, delivery and pick up of groceries, shopping, transport arrangement and accompaniment of customers