Mesini has 5 years of experience caring for elderly at home in Taiwan.

5 years In Taiwan caring for wheelchair-bound 80-year-old lady with stroke and diabetes. The elderly weighed 71kg (at the start) and 87 kg (at the end).

• Initially, in the first 1+year, the elderly was bedridden. Subsequently, the elderly was able to use the wheelchair.
• NGT feeding (first 1.5 years), Suctioning (tracheal).
• Gave injections and monitored blood glucose levels. Monitored blood glucose.
• Assisted with oxygen therapy (first year).
• Basic wound care for bedsore.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including bedbath (first year), showering, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
• Woke up 3 to 4 times at night to suction, change diapers and turning and positioning.
• Accompanied for rehabilitation in the hospital from Monday – Fridays via the hospital bus.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointment.
• Brought the elderly out every day to meet her friends, to go to the market.
  

Mesini has worked as a Domestic Worker in Singapore for about 12 years with one family.

• Performed household chores and cooking for a family of 6 comprising of an elderly lady, mdm, sir, 3 young children including a newborn. *Mesini said that her work permit was applied under different members of the same family but she worked for the same family when she was in Singapore.
• Periods with the family. 22 Jan 1998 - 24 Mar 2004, 21 Apr 2004 - 24 Jul 2004, 25 Sep 2004 - 15 Oct 2007, 11 Jan 2008 - 27 Aug 2010.
• See her biodata for her employment history in Singapore from MOM portal.

She speaks Mandarin and Indonesian.

Mary has 4 years of experience caring for elderly at home in the Philippines.

5 Month in the Philippines caring for a wheelchair-bound 72-year-old lady with cervical cancer. The elderly weighed 42kg.

• Injection 3 times a week.
• Assisted with oxygen therapy.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (using a urinal), dressing, feeding, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
• Shared a bedroom with her. Woke up 6 times at night to prepare food and assisted in toileting.
• Assisted in ROM exercises. Massaged her.
• Prepared and served medications. Administer pain medications.
• Updated her daughter (a doctor) and her family about her medication schedule and patient’s condition.
• Cared for the elderly until she passed away.

3 years in the Philippines. Worked in a team 1 head nurse, 6 caregivers who worked together to care for 3 patients

• Her main patient was a 53-year-old lady with diabetes, renal failure and dialysis 3 times a week. She weighed about 50kg.
• Rotating 12-hour shifts with another caregiver. Alternate weekly between day and night.
• Assisted her in walking with a walker.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting, changing diapers, dressing, walking, getting into and out of bed.
• Gave injections and monitored blood glucose levels.
• Assisted in simple exercises. Massaged the patients.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Took instructions from the head nurse.
• She also worked as a relief caregiver for another patient when other caregivers were absent. She cared for a wheelchair-bound 73-year-old lady (mother of her main patient) with diabetes, left leg amputated from knee down. The elderly weighed 90kg.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting using a commode, changing diapers, dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa.
• She cared for her main patient until she passed away from cardiac arrest in Aug 2021 and she was assigned to care for the brother of her main patient, a 45-year-old man with diabetes, renal failure and dialysis 3 times a week.
• He was able to walk and by himself.
• Assisted in showering, walking, taking the stairs.

7 month in the Philippines caring for an 87-year-old man with Parkinson’s Disease. The elderly weighed 87kg.

• Monitored his blood pressure.
• Rotating 12-hour shifts with another caregiver. Alternate weekly between day and night.
• Assisted to walk with a walker at home.
• Performed manual evacuation.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting, dressing, feeding, walking, getting into and out of bed.
• Assisted in simple exercises in the morning. He did not like to exercise and needed coaxing.
• Brought him to the playground every day in the afternoon for walking and simple exercises.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with his son. Updated his doctors on how he was responding to medication.
  

Certification and Training

• TESDA National Certificate (NCII) Caregiving
• “First Aid” & Basic Life Support Training
  

She speaks English and Tagalog.

Ririn is a trained, certified maid for elderly care.

She has undergone caregiver training at the overseas training centre.

She holds a certificate in caregiving.

She has worked as a domestic helper in Indonesia from 2010 – 2016.

From 2018 - 2020, she took care of her own 76-year-old grandfather with typhus. He frequently experienced shortness of breath and was often hospitalized.

• Used a walking stick to walk and her assistance.
• Assisted with showering, toileting, dressing and walking.
• Also took care of her 65-year-old grandmother who was frail. Assisted in showering, toileting, feeding and walking.
• She cared for both of them in the day. Her sister-in-law would take over to care for them after that.
• Cared for them until they passed away at home. Her grandfather passed away 1 month after her grandmother passed away.

She speaks Indonesian and basic English

She is able to handle wheelchair-bound, bedbound seniors weighing up to 60+kg.