care assistant

Support worker role

A care assistant is someone employed to help people with daily living tasks they cannot manage alone—bathing, dressing, eating, moving around.

The role typically involves looking after elderly, disabled, or ill individuals in their homes or in residential facilities.

She works as a care assistant at a nursing home.

Also called caregiver or care worker.

Related

elderly · loved ones · compassion · gentle · gentle touch · bedside · medication · blood pressure · wheelchair · bathing · bed bath · daily living · feeding · kindness · night shift · shift · uniform · hospice

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Opposites
helping vs. harming

care assistantabuser

One who mistreats others

tormentor · neglector · exploiter · victimizer · predator

professional role hierarchy in healthcare

care assistantmedical director

Physician leading healthcare organization

doctor · physician · consultant · surgeon · attending physician

care recipient vs. care provider

care assistantpatient

Able to wait calmly

resident · client · dependent · charge

Family

care, assistant, cares, cared, caring, careful, carefully, careless, carelessly

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