Assist patients with daily activities.

Assist patients with daily activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 9 occupations and seen in 19 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Assist individuals with special needs. in Assisting and Caring for Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 19 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 1 (5%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves. · Occupational Therapy Assistants · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming. · Home Health Aides · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Bathe patients. · Home Health Aides · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary. · Psychiatric Aides · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Provide physical support to patients to assist them to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising. · Orderlies · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care. · Home Health Aides · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Perform hygiene-related duties, such as clipping animals' claws or cleaning and polishing teeth. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities. · Home Health Aides · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings. · Physical Therapist Assistants · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Exercise animals or provide them with companionship. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs. · Occupational Therapists · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings. · Physical Therapist Aides · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Dust, spray, or bathe animals to control insect pests. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 3.5 · no direct exposure
• Participate in patient care tasks, such as assisting with passing food trays, feeding residents, or bathing residents on bed rest. · Physical Therapist Aides · importance 3.1 · no direct exposure
• Groom, trim, or clip animals' coats. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 3.0 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Nursing Assistants
• Home Health Aides
• Psychiatric Aides
• Orderlies
• Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
• Physical Therapist Assistants
• Occupational Therapists
• Physical Therapist Aides

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-assist-patients-with-daily-activities,
  title  = {Assist patients with daily activities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/assist-patients-with-daily-activities}
}