AI exposure by occupation, O*NET 31-1121.00
Will AI replace Home Health Aides?
Home Health Aides: AI does not yet handle any of the role's 15 tasks; the work mostly needs an efficient-tier model.
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Every task, scored
The 15 tasks O*NET 30.3 lists for Home Health Aides, from most to least exposed. None reaches 60, the level at which AI already handles a task.
| Task | AI exposure | Evidence | Model tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Bathe patients. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Change dressings. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care. | Estimated | No tier | |
| Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine. | Estimated | No tier | |
| Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets. | Estimated | No tier | |
| Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs. | Estimated | No tier |
Observed: scored from AI use recorded in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), 0 of 15 tasks. Estimated: scored from the task's O*NET 30.3 work activity, 15 of 15. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central the task is. Model tier is the lowest tier that can do the task under the published rubric; "No tier" marks hands-on work.
The model tier this role needs
An efficient-tier model or lower covers 73% of the role's importance-weighted task work. 73% of the work is something AI can address at some tier, and 27% is hands-on.
Efficient, standard and frontier tiers come from the JobRoute model tier reference. The recommended tier is the lowest one that covers 80% of the work AI can address. How the method works.
Wages, employment and outlook
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) publishes no national employment or wage figure for this O*NET occupation.
Adjacent roles
The occupations that reuse the most of this role's skills, with the usual time to move. These are the first places to look when you plan to redeploy or retrain people in this role.
- Personal Care Aides 78% skill overlap, about 8 months to move Exposure43
- Nursing Assistants 68% skill overlap, about 11 months to move Exposure32
- Healthcare Social Workers 66% skill overlap, about 12 months to move Exposure43
- Occupational Therapy Aides 65% skill overlap, about 13 months to move Exposure31
- Psychiatric Aides 65% skill overlap, about 13 months to move Exposure29
Skill overlap and transition time from the JobRoute role adjacency graph on O*NET 30.3 skills.
Questions about Home Health Aides and AI
Will AI replace Home Health Aides?
Not on current evidence. None of the 15 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation reaches a task exposure of 60, the level at which JobRoute counts a task as handled by AI, and the role's importance-weighted exposure is 24 out of 100. JobRoute scores tasks, not whole jobs, so the score shows how much of the work changes rather than whether the job disappears.
What is the AI exposure of Home Health Aides?
24 out of 100 on JobRoute's task exposure measure, the importance-weighted average of the role's O*NET task scores. Higher means more of the work is AI-doable today. 0 of the 15 task scores are observed in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), and the other 15 are estimated from each task's O*NET work activity.
Which Home Health Aides tasks can AI already do?
None reaches 60 yet. The most exposed task is: Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming, at 30 out of 100.
What AI model tier does this role need?
An efficient-tier model or lower covers 73% of the role's importance-weighted task work, and 27% is hands-on work that no model tier covers. JobRoute assigns each task the lowest tier that can do it under a published rubric and recommends the lowest tier that covers 80% of the work AI can address.
How to cite
Data version 2026-11-02, JobRoute method v1.0.0. Download all occupations or this occupation as JSON. Methodology.
JobRoute (2026). AI exposure: Home Health Aides. Data version 2026-11-02, method v1.0.0. Built on O*NET 30.3, BLS OEWS May 2025 and the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026). CC BY 4.0. https://www.jobroute.ai/jobs/home-health-aides
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