Period: 20 May 2023 to 09 Jun 2025
Country: Singapore
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 96-year-old lady with dementia and prior fall. The elderly weighed 45+kg.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (for passing motion), changing diapers (for passing urine, including at night), dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to turn and position.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in ROM exercises.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget if she had eaten and ask to eat again. Fitri would distract her attention by watching TV together. Later, the elderly would be fine.
- The elderly would forget her own son. Fitri would then re-introduce them by showing their photo to elderly. Sometimes, if the elderly still could not recall, Fitri would ask her son to come and visit their mother to recall her memories.
- The elderly would ask to go outside in the middle of the night, Fitri would explain to the her that it is night time and coax to go back to sleep, the elderly would be fine.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer. Sometimes, Fitri would bring the elderly independently by Grab car.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until she passed away.
Period: 2009 to 2014
Country: Hong Kong
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 72-year-old man with dementia and Parkinson disease. The elderly weighed 70+kg.
- Initially, assisted in walking with walking stick. Used a wheelchair when going outside. After 2 years, the elderly became wheelchair-bound.
- NGT feeding (in the last 2 month).
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering (after wheelchair-bound), toileting (after wheelchair-bound, for passing motion), changing diapers (after wheelchair-bound, for passing urine, including at night; after 4 years, elderly did not go toilet and only wore diapers), dressing, feeding (after 3 years), transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
- Initially, in the first 2 years, slept in a separate room. After 2 years, shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to change diapers and turn & position.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in ROM exercises.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget that his children had come to visit him, Fitri would explain to him that they already visited and left. The elderly would be fine. Sometimes, if the elderly still could not recall, Fitri would ask his children to speak with their father directly.
- The elderly would forget if he had eaten and ask to eat again. Fitri would explain to him that he had eaten and the elderly would be fine.
- The elderly would refuse to shower. Fitri would damp his clothes and told him that he needs to change his clothes. Later the elderly would comply.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer. Sometimes, Fitri would bring the elderly independently by MRT.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until he passed away.
Period: 03 Oct 2005 to 06 Feb 2007
Country: Singapore
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 90-year-old lady with dementia and prior fall. The elderly weighed 55kg.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (for passing motion), changing diapers (including at night), dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to change diapers, turn & position and give water.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in exercises.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget that she had eaten and ask to eat again, Fitri would explain to the elderly that she had eaten. The elderly would be fine.
- The elderly would forget that she has not showered, Fitri would damp her clothes and told her that she need to change her clothes. Later the elderly would comply.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer. Sometimes, Fitri would bring the elderly independently by MRT.
- Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
- Cared for the elderly until she passed away.
Period: 07 Feb 2005 to 03 Oct 2005
Country: Singapore
Title: Live-in Caregiver
Setting: In-Home
- Cared for a wheelchair-bound 88-year-old lady with dementia. The elderly weighed 60kg.
- Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (for passing motion), changing diapers (including at night), dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
- Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to change diapers and turn & position.
- Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
- Assisted in exercises.
- Due to dementia,
- The elderly would forget her own children and friends when they come and visit her, Fitri would re-introduce them to the elderly. If the elderly still could not recall, Fitri would repeat the same thing to her over and over again.
- The elderly would forget that she has eaten and ask to eat again. Fitri would explain to the elderly that she had eaten. If the elderly still insisted, Fitri would tell her that there is no food left and said would go outside to buy. The elderly would be fine.
- Prepared and served medications.
- Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
- Performed housework and grocery shopping.
- Cared for the elderly until she passed away. Hence, she was transferred to a new employer.
Other
Period: 02 Sep 2022 to 20 Feb 2023
Country: Singapore
Title: Domestic Helper
Setting: In-Home
- Took care of a 5-month-old new born baby.
- Performed housework and cooking.
- Fitri said she did not have experience taking care of baby as her own children were mostly taken care of by her aunt.
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