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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
You run a morning group in a long-term care home — chair exercise, then a music hour. In the afternoon you sit with one resident who has stopped joining anything and find out why. Your notes go in the same chart as the doctor's.
Diploma or degree, 2–4 years
A degree, and the years that come with it.
$14,000 – $40,000
You do not earn while you learn.
$45k – $72ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
260 openings a year · More of it each year
Long-term care expansion is the whole story here.
Who else is asking
about 7 people per opening
Moderate. The degree is the cost, not the queue.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: low
Nothing here can be automated, which is exactly why it is paid less than it should be.
Where the work is
everywhere
Anywhere with a hospital, a home, or a rehab unit.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Mostly degree-route, often after volunteering in the same building.
How soon you earn
About 4 years before you earn
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
No bottleneck, but most first jobs are part-time and stitched together.
Grief. You lose people you've known for years, and the job does not stop for it.
Program management, gerontology, hospital child life, community health.
Volunteer one afternoon at a long-term care home. They are always short and they will take you.
14 paths cover this suite so far. We never rank them and we never name a single best one for you.