When the amount of care is more than family members can provide, home health aides may be hired to care for clients. Home health aides are also called home care aides, personal care attendants, or homemaker-home health aides. Home health aides provide personal care services to clients. For example, aides help clients bathe and dress. If necessary, they also help clients get out of bed.
Aides provide basic medical care, such as checking clients' pulse, temperature, and breathing.
They give clients medicine and help them with simple exercises. Occasionally aides change bandages or give massages. Some aides help clients run errands outside the house. Aides usually provide housekeeping services. For example, they clean clients' houses, do laundry, and change the bed linens.