Evaluate older adults’ ability to take care of themselves

Description

Assess the condition of an older patient and decide if he or she needs assistance in taking care of him- or herself to eat or to bathe and in meeting his/hers social and psychological needs.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 10 occupations
  • Optional in 4 occupations
  • Total: 14 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)

Essential for

  • Home care aide
    Home care aides provide personal assistance and promote autonomy, on a daily basis to individuals who are unable to take care of themselves due to illness, ageing or disability.…
  • Gerontology social worker
    Gerontology social workers provide assistance to elderly individuals and their families helping them to cope with their biopsychosocial needs. They help connecting the elderly with…
  • Residential home older adult care worker
    Residential home older adult care workers counsel and support the elderly who have physical or mental disabilities. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a posi…
  • Homelessness worker
    Homelessness workers provide on-the-spot assistance, counselling and advice to people who have housing problems or live on the streets. They present them with services available to…
  • Military welfare worker
    Military welfare workers assist families in coping with the deployment in the military of a family member by supporting them through the adjustment process of leaving and returning…
  • Mental health social worker
    Mental health social workers assist and provide counselling to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on providing personalised support to cases and…
  • Palliative care social worker
    Palliative care social workers provide assistance and counselling to patients with a chronic or a terminal disease and their families with the practical arrangements. They arrange …
  • Adult community care worker
    Adult community care workers perform assessment and care management of communities of adults who live with physical impairments or convalescing states. They aim to improve their li…
  • Community social worker
    Community social workers help people in disadvantage or excluded from society to change their situation and handle their integration problems. They work with communities focusing o…
  • Rehabilitation support worker
    Rehabilitation support workers provide counselling to individuals dealing with birth defects or with major consequences caused by diseases, accidents, and burnouts. They help them …

Optional for

  • Hospital social worker
    Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and fin…
  • Social care worker
    Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolesc…
  • Elderly home manager
    Elderly home managers oversee, plan, organise and evaluate the provision of elderly care services for people who are in need of these services due to the effects of ageing.…
  • Personal trainer
    Personal trainers design, implement and evaluate exercise or physical activity programmes for one or more individual clients by collecting and analysing client information. They st…

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Last updated on February 19, 2026

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