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Personal Care Aides
Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.
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- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of personal care aides?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.
- Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.
- Participate in case reviews, consulting with the team caring for the client, to evaluate the client's needs and plan for continuing services.
- Instruct or advise clients on issues, such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition, or infant care.
- Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands.
- Provide clients with communication assistance, typing their correspondence or obtaining information for them.
- Train family members to provide bedside care.
- Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals.
- Transport clients to locations outside the home, such as to physicians' offices or on outings, using a motor vehicle.
Other job titles for this occupation (44)
Care Provider · Caregiver · Direct Care Worker · Home Care Aide · Medication Aide · Personal Care Aide · Personal Care Assistant (PCA) · Personal Care Attendant (PCA) · Resident Assistant · Resident Care Assistant (RCA) · Aide · Blind Aide · Blind Escort · Care Caregiver · Care Companion · Caretaker · Companion · Companion Caregiver · Convalescent Sitter · Direct Care Staffer · Direct Support Staff Member · Elder Care Caregiver · Elderly Companion · Family Member Caretaker · Geriatric Aide · Geriatric Personal Care Aide · Guardian Family Member · Health Service Worker · Home Care Attendant · Home Care Provider · Home Caregiver · Home Health Care Provider · Home Help Aide · In Home Caregiver · In-Home Care Aide · In-Home Caregiver · Live In Caregiver · Live-in Caregiver · Nutrition Aide · Patient Sitter · Personal Attendant · Personal Support Worker · Sitter · Special Needs Caregiver