Period: 2014 to 2020

‍Country: Taiwan

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for an 80+-year-old lady with frailty.
• Assisted in walking with walking frame. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (only for bowel movements), changing diapers (including at night), dressing, walking, getting into and out of bed.
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to change diapers.
• Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
• Assisted in exercises.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
• Performed housework and cooking.
• Finished contract and returned home.

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Other

Period: 28 Dec 2022 to 19 Dec 2025

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Elderly Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for an 86-year-old lady.
• Assisted in walking with walking frame. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up at night to assist the elderly to go toileting (waited outside with door open).
• Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
• Assisted in exercises.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
• Performed housework.
• Finished contract and returned home.

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Period: 19 Aug 2022 to 14 Dec 2022

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for 02 children, ages 05 & 07.
• Performed housework and cooking.
• Employer sent her back to her agency as she could not speak English.

Period: 06 Mar 2024 to 24 Feb 2026

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a 77-year-old lady with dementia, Parkinson disease and scoliosis.
• Initially assisted in walking. After 8 months, the elderly used a walking stick and later used a walking frame (after 4 months). Used wheelchair when going outside.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering (after 8 months), toileting (after 8 months, elderly prefer to go toilet), changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, walking, getting into and out of bed.
• Shared a room with the elderly.
• Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
• Assisted in exercises.
• Due to dementia,
  
  • Sometimes, when Epi asked the elderly "how are you?", the elderly would repeat her question instead of answering. If the elderly could not answer, Epi would turn on the TV for her instead.
  • The elderly would forget her own children, and Epi would re-introduce them to the elderly. Sometimes, if the elderly still forget, Epi would repeat the same things over and over again.

• Prepared and served medications.
• Brought the elderly to take blood test (once every 3 month) by bus and accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
• Epi’s employer moved overseas and decided to send Epi home early.

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Period: 2014 to 2018

‍Country: Dubai  

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a wheelchair-bound 70-year-old lady with diabetes and eczema. The elderly weighed 60kg.
• Gave injections and monitored blood glucose levels.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting (in the morning and afternoon), changing diapers (wear all days, but only passing urine and motion at night), dressing, feeding, 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 ROM exercises.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with employer.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
• Finished contract and returned home.

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Other

Period: 09 Aug 2022 to 06 Mar 2024

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Took care of a total of 10 chickens, 2 ducks, 1 peacock and 1 poodle dog.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
• There was one time, when Epi turn on the vacuum cleaner, it triggered the poodle dog and it started biting her. She later saw a doctor and received rabies injection.
• Employer hired another Filipino helper after Epi worked there for 1 year. Sometimes, when Epi asked the helper to help shower the peacock, the helper refused.
• Due to all these reasons, she decided to transfer to a new employer.

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Period: 25 Aug 2018 to 20 July 2022

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
• Finished contract and returned home.

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Period: 2006 to 2008

‍Country: Malaysia

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Took care of two children with Autism, ages 8 and 14. Also cared for two golden retrievers.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.
• The employer often argued with her husband, which affected their autistic children. As a result, their 14 year old son sometimes grabbed Epi’s neck and scratched her. Because of this situation, Epi decided to return to Indonesia.

Period: 2022 to 2024

‍Country: Indonesia

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Took care of 2 children, ages 4 and 10.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping and cooking.

Other:

• Cared for her own wheelchair-bound 60-year-old grandmother.
• The elderly weighed about 50kg.
• Assisted in showering, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa.
• Shared room with her grandmother. Woke up at night to change diapers and serve water.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Cared for her until she passed away.