Period: 2023 to 2025
Country: Hong Kong
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for an 80+-year-old lady with diabetes and stroke.
- Assisted in walking with walking stick. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
- Monitored blood glucose levels.
- Administered suppository (bullet) and enema.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (waited outside), dressing, walking.
- Slept in a separate room.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Brought the elderly for medical appointments by herself.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Finished contract.
Period: 2020 to 2022
Country: Taiwan
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 90+-year-old lady with dementia and diabetes. The elderly weighted 50+kg.
- Initially, assisted in walking with walking stick. Used a wheelchair when going outside. After 1 year of care, the elderly became wheelchair-bound.
- Monitored blood glucose levels.
- Administered enema and performed manual evacuation.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (first year of care), changing diapers (after 1 year of care, including at night), dressing, feeding (sometimes). First year of care, assisted in walking, getting into and out of bed. After 1 year of care, assisted in transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa.
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to go toileting (first year of care), change diapers (after 1 year of care), give water and accompany her if she could not fall asleep.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget if she had eaten and ask to eat again. Miladiyah would give her something small to eat.
- The elderly would refuse to shower. Miladiyah would explain to her that if she doesn’t take a shower, she would not smell good.
- The elderly would have mood swings frequently. Miladiyah would speak to her nicely to calm her down.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
- Performed housework and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until she passed away.
Period: 2019 to 2020
Country: Taiwan
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a 70+-year-old man with diabetes. The elderly weighed 80+kg.
- Used a wheelchair, assisted to stand to get to the wheelchair.
- Gave injections and monitored blood glucose levels.
- Administered enema.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, assisting to stand to get to the wheelchair and back.
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to change diapers, give water and accompany him if he could not fall asleep.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
- Performed housework and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until he passed away.
Other
Period: May 2025 – December 2025
Country: Hong Kong
Title: Domestic Helper
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for 1 child, age 8.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Due to her limited Cantonese proficiency, she had communication difficulties with her employer. Hence, she did not continue working there.