- Assist doctors in providing health care and support to elderly patients
- Help to bathe bedridden patients to prevent bedsores
- Understand patients medications and administer them to clients as and when due
- Help to conduct regular screenings and routine check-up on patients
- Help to assess the cognitive skills and mental status of their patients
- Observe, understand, and manage peculiar old age health concerns like incontinence, insomnia, loss of strength and appetite, sexual issues as well as mobility challenges
- Help to educate the families and caregivers of their patients on the best ways to care for them and keep them safe
- Assist doctors with medical examinations and administer prescribed treatments
- Help to maintain a chart for their patients in order to have accurate records of patient's medical history, treatment plan and progress
- Help to perform prescribed tests on their patients, like blood pressure checks, temperature, respiration, pulse and blood sugar.
