Personal Care assistant
A personal care assistant (PCA) is a home aide that helps people, like the elderly or the mentally challenged, with everyday tasks that they’re unable to do themselves. As a PCA, your can provide a wide range of services, such as grocery shopping, cleaning, bathing and companionship. You could work in the home of a single patient or visit several patients within a day, and each day could be less-than-routine. Becoming a PCA requires you to have flexibility, a high level of compassion and a strong desire to help people.