Group home worker vs direct care aide

Differences between group home worker and direct care aide duties and responsibilities

Group home worker example responsibilities.

• Provide companionship, socialization and emotional support.
• Provide transportation to medical appointments and transfer patients in and out of wheelchairs
• Experience working with the elderly, Alzheimer's or dementia patients.
• Maintain the living areas by cleaning, doing laundry, and shopping for groceries.
• Plan meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals, feeding, and clean-up.
• Assist and redirect clients with ADL skills, transport clients to daily activities, and focuse on documentation.
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Direct care aide example responsibilities.

• Provide individuals appropriate assistance in completing ADL's, such as showering, toileting, transferring, dressing, and feeding.
• Assist mentally disable adults with ADL's such as showering, grooming, oral care, eating, dressing and toileting.
• Provide emotional and mental support to unstable patients and are experience in dealing with aggressive residents
• Provide caring and companionship to elderly and developmentally disable consumers and provide primary resident care and assistance with daily living activities.
• Advocate for disable children, help them thrive through completion of goals and one-on-one supervision SCIP, AMAP and CPR certify.
• Dispense and administer medication to patients according to AMAP policies and procedures.