Untrained aides end up performing intimate medical care for dying clients

Evidence

One of my chores was to prepare all her meals and then put them into a blender and feed her through a feeding tube that went directly into her stomach. … I was not a trained nurse and on one occasion I overfed her through the tube, causing her to vomit all over me. At that point it became clear that she no longer needed a personal assistant but a full-time nurse. She passed away shortly afterwards. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 182

Categorization

• QUESTION: Curious about the legal gray zone in which personal assistants to the terminally ill end up doing tube feeding and other nursing acts with no license.
• SEED: An essay angle on how the gig/assistant economy quietly absorbs end-of-life care tasks that trained nurses should do.