A Gericare Aide provides hands-on personal care for older adults — typically in long-term care, assisted living, or memory-care settings — supporting residents through the routines of daily living.
Gericare Aide pay typically runs $36K–$46K at this level, and jobs in this field are projected to grow 2% through 2034.
Days tend to follow a rounds-based rhythm: morning ADLs, vitals, meals, repositioning, toileting, and the steady flow of small requests. You'll often work a defined assignment, and the relationships you build with residents shape how meaningful the work feels.
The collaboration piece is constant. Nurses, therapists, dietary, families, and housekeeping all depend on the information you carry from the bedside, and you're often the one who notices a small change — appetite, mobility, mood — before it becomes a clinical issue. Memory-care work in particular tends to require a calmer, slower pace.
People who tend to thrive find meaning in proximity to elders and bring patience to repetition. If the physical toll, the emotional weight of decline, or low pay relative to the work would erode you, the role can be hard to sustain over years.
Your job belongs to your employer.
Your career belongs to you.
Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.
Your job belongs to your employer.
Your career belongs to you.
Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.
Roles with similar work and overlapping career paths
View all Healthcare roles →A Gericare Aide provides hands-on personal care for older adults — typically in long-term care, assisted living, or memory-care settings — supporting residents through the routines of daily living.
Median pay for a Gericare Aide is about $40K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $31K to $50K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Service Orientation, Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Monitoring, and Coordination.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 2.3% through 2034, with roughly 1.4 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Nursing Aide, Senior Patient Care Technician (Pct), and Institutional Aide.
Do one small thing to grow in your career this week. Pick one of these; each comes with the words to use.
More career advice
We believe careers grow through small steps taken often, more than big leaps. So we’ve collected hundreds of them for you to try.
Browse career adviceStill figuring out what you want to become
when you grow up?
Don't know if you want to stay in your job?
Get your career on record. Then decide.