What is a Specialist Live-In Caregiver?
Unlike a Domestic Helper whose primary role is to help you with household chores such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, gardening, buying groceries, running errands and providing childcare, pet care or basic eldercare, a "Specialist" Live-In Caregiver is a Migrant Domestic Worker (MDW) whose primary role is to provide full time caregiving for the sick or elderly care recipients in the comforts of their own home. They are able to help out with specific basic household chores, however, it should not compromise with their caregiving role.
These caregivers are trained to assist their care recipient with their ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) as well as take care of patients with more serious health conditions including Cancer, Stroke and Dementia. They are trained to perform basic nursing roles such as stoma changing, wound dressing, tube feeding and more. These caregivers play the role of a personal health aide and companion, maintaining the patient’s physical, emotional and social well-being.
Our Partnership with VickyCares
About VickyCares
VickyCares is a team of care specialists who offers home medical care and nursing services to their patients. They design specific and personalised care plans based on your goals and use tele-monitoring to enhance your care.
Their aim is to respect and maintain patients’ dignity by focusing on their comfort and quality of life, provide utmost care & supports to patients wherever they are and sharing and educating knowledge of palliative care’s role in improving quality of life.
Our Partnership Enhances Your Care
Our caregivers are trained, certified and supported by a team of Specialist Nurses and GPs from Vickycares.
When you hire a caregiver from iHelper, your helper will receive free lifetime remote support for caregiving issues from Vickycares.
Your helper will receive classroom training with practicum and certification for basic caregiving knowledge and skills
Vickycares nurse-trainers will do a home visit to ensure that your helper is able to cope with the caregiving responsibilities.
Customised home based caregiver training is provided by Vickycares for the patient's special needs and condition
Where emergency medical or nursing home care is required, Vickycares is just a call away.
(Note: physical medical attendance by Vickycares in-house doctors and nurses will be chargeable)
Why Hire A Live-In Caregiver?
Conducive Care in Home Environment
It allows the patient to recuperate in a more conducive home environment compared to a nursing home / community hospital / hospice.
Other family members can be around to support in the caregiving of the care recipient, providing companionship and moral support for the mental and emotional well-being of the care recipient.
Cost Effective
Given the high demand and severe shortage of skilled nurses, and high costs of hospitalisation and nursing care, MDWs are a cost effective and practical solution to patient’s care giving needs.
MDWs who are properly trained and supported are able to perform basic procedures competently.
The monthly salary of a full time live-in Specialist Caregiver range between $800 to $1000.
Employers also have to bear the cost of the maid levy, helper's living expenses such as meals, toiletries, room facilities (e.g. mattress, bed linens etc), medical and dental costs, 6 monthly medical examination, home leave, repatriation costs.
Round the Clock Coverage
A Live-In MDW provides round the clock support at home as and when required.
Moreover, whenever specialised or emergency care home medical care and nursing services are required from professional nurses and medical doctors, Vickycares is just a call away.
Note: physical medical attendance by Vickycares in house doctors and nurses are chargeable.
Avoid Burnouts
Caregiving can be highly demanding on a caregiver's body, mind and emotions, especially when it has to be juggled with all your other work, family and personal responsibilities.
Caregivers who are "burned out" may experience fatigue, stress, anxiety and depression.
Hiring a Full Time Live-In Caregiver can help to relieve you of some of this burden.
Caregivers perform a very important role for us and our loved ones.
Show your appreciation for them with a smile and a thank you. Provide your caregivers with the help and rest that they need to avoid caregiver burnout.
Treat them with care so that they are able to provide optimal caregiving to your loved ones over a prolonged period of time without getting physically, mentally and emotionally burnt out.
Contact Us
Please contact us @ iHelper@outlook.sg if you need any clarification or advice.
Employers who are interested to hire Specialist Caregivers can register here.
Domestic Helpers who are interested to become Specialist Caregivers can register here.