I accidentally surfed around Philly Nursing Home Reviews and browse through the pages where some good Nursing Homes are listed. Articles regarding the senior ones are also available for viewing.
A cousin of mine who is about to graduate from Senior High School asked for my advice the last time she went here in Dagupan to visit us.
She wants to take up Education. She had this dream of teaching kids especially those from Public School. She wants to impart knowledge to them and be their second mother. But as expected, her father wants her to take up Nursing and she hates the idea.
“What if I take up a caregiver course? So I could help my family after six months” she once said.
I know a number of individuals who took up a short course as caregiver even if they had earned a degree from a 4-year course. One of them is a former computer professor. He is now residing in Canada as a full-time caregiver and a part-time computer technician.
Caregivers are very much in-demand in countries like Canada, England, Ireland, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. What you have to do is take good care of the elderly who, sad to say, is being left by their busy children or relatives.
We cannot blame our Filipino Female Overseas Workers (especially the mothers) if they chose to leave their high position (but low salary) to work abroad that is far from their usual job here in the Philippines. A TV Special regarding Filipino Nurses in a good country receives a salary worth Php 50,000 a month is much bigger compared to a Php 4,000 that a nurse here in the third world country receives.
In a recorded interview, Medical Directors from Manila showed their sympathy to the happenings in the medical industry. Filipino nurses and caregivers are leaving the country to search for a better life for their families and for future use. Sadly, majority of these people are the good and hard-working ones.