Classification note
- Published code: 5322
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 5 Service and Sales Workers
- Sub Major Group: 53 Personal Care Workers
- Minor Group: 532 Personal Care Workers in Health Services
- Unit Group: 5322 Home-based Personal Care Workers
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- No primary TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- 86101 - Hospital activities (except specialized hospital activities)
- 86102 - Specialized hospital activities
- 86201 - General disease clinic activities
- 86202 - Specialized disease clinic activities
- 86203 - Dental activities
- 86901 - Nursing and midwifery activities
- 86902 - Physical therapy activities
- 86903 - Medical laboratory activities
- 86909 - Other activities in human health which are not classified elsewhere
- 87100 - Nursing service facility that provides accommodation
- 87201 - Activities providing care and accommodation for intellectually disabled persons
- 87202 - Activities providing care and accommodation to people with mental health problems
- 87203 - Activities to provide care and shelter to drug addicts
- 87301 - Activities providing care and accommodation for the elderly
- 87302 - Activities to provide care and accommodation to children and youth with disabilities
- 87303 - Activities to provide residential care to disabled adults
- 87901 - Activities providing care and accommodation for children and youth. (except those with disabilities have mental health problems and addicted to drugs)
- 87902 - Activities providing care and shelter for women experiencing social problems
- 87909 - Activities providing care that provides accommodation to other people. which are not classified elsewhere
- 88101 - Social welfare activities that do not provide accommodation for the elderly
- 88102 - Social welfare activities that do not provide accommodation to disabled people
- 88901 - Daytime child care activities
- 88909 - Other social work activities that does not provide accommodation which are not classified elsewhere
Definition
Home-based personal care workers provide routine personal care and assistance with activities of daily living to persons who are in need of such care due to effects of ageing, illness, injury, or other physical or mental condition in private homes and other independent residential settings.
Tasks include
Tasks include - (a) assisting clients with personal and therapeutic care needs such as personal hygiene, feeding, dressing, physical mobility and exercise, communication, taking oral medications and changing dressings, usually as per care plans established by a health professional (b) maintaining records of client care, changes in condition and responses to care and treatment, and reporting concerns or providing referrals to a health or social services professional; (c) positioning and lifting clients with physical mobility challenges, and helping transport them in wheelchairs and motor vehicles; (d) providing clients and families with emotional support and information and advice on topics such as nutrition, hygiene, exercise, caring for infants or adapting to disability or illness; (e) maintaining clients’ environmental hygiene standards, such as changing bed linen, washing clothes and dishes, and cleaning living quarters; (f) providing psychological support to clients such as through conversation or reading aloud; (g) planning, purchasing, preparing, or serving meals to meet nutritional requirements and prescribed diets; (h) providing support to parents and care for newborns during the postpartum period (i) scheduling and accompanying clients for appointments with medical doctors and other health professionals or performing other errands.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Home birth assistant - Home care aide - Nursing aide (home) - Personal care provider
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Nurse (professional) - 2221 - Social worker (professional) - 2635 - Nurse (associate professional) - 3221 - Social worker (associate professional) - 3412 - Nursing aide (clinic or hospital) - 5321
Notes
Workers who provide personal care to residents of medical and health care facilities that have permanent medical or nursing supervision (such as in hospitals and nursing care homes), and therefore work under the direct supervision of health professionals or associate professionals, are classified in Unit Group 5321: Health Care Assistants. Workers who provide personal care in independent residential settings (including retirement communities with minimal or no on-site medical or nursing supervision), are classified in Unit Group 5322: Home-based Personal Care Workers. Home birth assistants, who provide emotional support and general care and advice to women and families during pregnancy and labour, but not delivery care to reduce health risks, are included here. Care workers who provide care and supervision for children in residential home and care centres are classified in Unit Group 5311: Child Care Workers.
ISCO-88 correspondence
- 5133