Home Health Aide
Home Health Aides (HHA) have the option to work in an assisted living facility or in a private home. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (USDL BLS) projects that overall employment for home health aides is expected “to grow 50 percent between 2008 and 2018, which is much faster than the average for all occupations.” Growth will vary between these individual occupations. Furthermore, according to the USDL BLS, for Home Health Aides specifically, the following factors will contribute to the “much faster than average employment growth:”