--- title: "Will AI Replace Home Health Aides? (2026)" description: "BLS rates home health aides' exposure to AI as moderate. What that means, which parts of the work AI touches, and the 2025–2035 outlook (+18.1% projected)." canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-home-health-aides" last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z" --- # Will AI Replace Home Health Aides? (2026) **Short answer:** Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow faster than average. The Bureau of Labor Statistics places home health aides in its moderate AI exposure category, below the middle of the pack: some of the work overlaps with what AI can do, much of it does not. BLS projects employment to change by +18.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 760,500 openings a year. | Measure | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | BLS relative AI exposure | Moderate | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories | | NueCareer AI-resilience score | 57/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database | | Projected employment change | +18.1% | BLS EP 2025–2035 | | Openings a year | 760,500 | BLS EP 2025–2035 | | Median annual wage | $35,800 | BLS OEWS May 2025 | ## Exposure categories | BLS category | Occupations | | --- | --- | | Low | 203 | | Moderate (this job) | 194 | | High | 190 | | Very high | 199 | Exposure means AI could be or has been used to assist with or complete some of the work. BLS says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains, automation probability or wage effects. Method: https://www.bls.gov/emp/publications/ai-exposure-categories.htm ## What holds up - Assisting and caring for others: 4.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Handling and moving objects: 4.1/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Performing general physical activities: 3.7/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Coaching and developing others: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) ## What AI reaches first - Processing information: 3.9/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Documenting/recording information: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Getting information: 4.5/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) - Analyzing data or information: 3.9/5 (O\*NET work activity importance) ## O\*NET tasks - Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration. - Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager. - Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets. - Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming. - Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care. - Bathe patients. ## Related careers less exposed to AI than home health aides - [Paramedic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paramedic): BLS exposure Low, median $60,600; [Will AI replace paramedics?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-paramedics) - [Physical Therapist Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physical-therapist-assistant): BLS exposure Low, median $68,380; [Will AI replace physical therapist assistants?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-physical-therapist-assistants) ## FAQ **Will AI replace home health aides?** Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow faster than average. BLS defines exposure as AI being able to assist with or complete some of the work, and says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains or wage effects. BLS projects employment to change by +18.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 760,500 openings a year. **How exposed are home health aides to AI?** BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Home Health Aides are in the moderate category, alongside 193 other occupations. The categories combine five public measures of where AI could be or already is used, and they compare occupations with each other rather than giving an absolute risk. **What parts of a home health aide's job can AI do?** In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are processing information, documenting/recording information and getting information. The parts that hold up best are assisting and caring for others, handling and moving objects and performing general physical activities. These come from O\*NET ratings of how important each activity is to the job, read through NueCareer's AI-resilience method. **Is being a home health aide a safe career from AI?** On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, home health aides score 57 out of 100, higher than 78% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $35,800 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025). No job is fully safe from technological change, but the federal exposure category and the projected openings are the two numbers worth weighing. **What careers similar to home health aides are less exposed to AI?** Paramedic (low exposure, $60,600 median), Physical Therapist Assistant (low exposure, $68,380 median). Each is in a lower BLS exposure category than home health aides, and most are listed by O\*NET as related to the work. Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/home-health-aide. --- This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology