Period: 20 Mar 2018 to 14 Jan 2025
Country: Singapore
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a bedbound 84-year-old man with stroke.
- Indwelling urinary catheter care.
- Administered suppository (bullet).
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including sponging, changing diapers (for pass motion, including at night), dressing, feeding, turning & positioning (only during daytime).
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to check diapers and give water or milk. She would change the diapers in the morning.
- Assisted in ROM exercises.
- Prepared and served medications.
- The doctor would visit the elderly at his house for medical appointments.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until he passed away.
Period: 03 Feb 2016 to 28 Feb 2018
Country: Singapore
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a 70+-year-old man with dementia.
- Assisted in walking with walking stick. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting, dressing, walking.
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to go toileting.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in exercises.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget if he had eaten and ask to eat again. Lestari would explain to him that he had eaten already and the elderly would listen to her.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments by herself.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Finished contract and returned home.
Other
Period: 22 Apr 2025 to 21 Jul 2025
Country: Singapore
Title: Domestic Helper
Setting: In-Home
- Initially the person that introduce her to the job said that she will be working as a domestic helper in an apartment/condo. When she arrived the employer’s house, she found out that she will be working in a 2-storey bungalow instead.
- Performed housework, cooking and washed 2 cars.
- The family were vegetarian, so Lestari need to follow their dietary options. After working for 3 months, she could not take it anymore as she did not have enough food and energy. She asked her employer if she could transfer to a new employer, but employer rejected her request. Hence, Lestari returned back to Indonesia.
Period: 16 Aug 2015 to 03 Feb 2016
Country: Singapore
Title: Domestic Helper
Setting: In-Home
- She worked in a 3-storey bungalow.
- Performed housework and grocery shopping.
- She could not handle cleaning the house by herself. Hence, she requested for transfer to a new employer.