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Web Articles For Talent Search Website:
Acting: Getting Experience Counts
Extract Acting is a strange creature. To be considered a good actor, you can’t look like you’re acting when you’re acting. It is a craft which gets better and better with experience. But it is also a craft that can be learnt through proper training, guidance and practice. To many actors however, acting is a passion. You either have it or you don't.
Careers In The Hospitality Industry
Extract Prospects for a career in the hospitality sector look promising in Singapore as tourist arrivals climb and two world-class Integrated Resorts are set to change the lion city’s skyline in 2009. Think of world class hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, convention centres, theatres, and museums. Expect exciting changes to the leisure and hospitality industry in two to three years. The industry will create promising new careers and job opportunities. Are you ready to tap on the next wave of growth in the hospitality sector?
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Childless Widow Gets Foundation's Help
Extract
Madam Aw’s mind was still dazed and reeling with the debilitating effects of stroke when she had her third fall at home. Her niece had found her lying on her bedroom floor, soaked in her own urine, and smeared by waste from a commode that had toppled over.
That was about two years ago when suicide as a quick way out of her misery was never far from her mind.
Today, the 76-year old widow enjoys pottering around her spartan two-room flat; her bespectacled eyes scanning like a hawk for the tiniest stubborn food stains in her spotless kitchen.
Picking Up the Pieces
Woman caregiver's resilence prevents family from breaking up
Extract When Maggie Chua's husband, the family's sole breadwinner, suddenly became bedridden 15 years ago, she was faced with three monumental tasks: paying off a $300,000 housing loan, bringing up her nine-year old son, and managing her husband's long-term medical needs. What prevented the young family from falling into chronic debt and hardship - was her sheer resilence and financial prudence.
Eldercare - Only a Woman's Business
Extract MEN and women age differently. Demographic and physiological differences aside, the ageing experience is also shaped by social and attitudinal expectations, and economic factors which are generally more in favour of men than women.
In Singapore as elsewhere in Asian societies, caring for the elderly, particularly, the sick older person is widely accepted as a woman’s responsibility.
It is not unusual for a daughter or daughter-in-law to give up formal employment (and future income security) to assume the role of a family caregiver. With the loss of income, the female caregiver becomes dependent on their spouses and family members for her daily living expenses. Although elderly care giving is an exhausting and full-time job, female caregivers are not formally paid, resulting in little or no income savings for her old age.
Income security of older women in Singapore
......a cause for concern
Extract A MAJOR concern for aged care organisations and women’s groups such as AWARE and TSAO Foundation is that older women in Singapore are not adequately prepared for old age. They take old age income security for granted and assume they can rely on traditional family support systems throughout their lives.
An older woman’s lifetime of fulfilling gender-based roles has led to the ‘inevitable’ – accumulation of insufficient savings for old age. As family and elderly caregivers, they do not earn income. They generally earn less than men. They work in lowly-paid jobs in the informal sector (which does not contribute to CPF). This problem is particularly acute among the ‘oldest old’ (defined as aged 80 years or over).
An AWARE-TSAO Foundation report on Women and Income Security in an ageing Singapore population confirms this stark picture of ageing among older women. The study was an analysis of 20 years of published data on women in Singapore from 1980 to 2000.
The face of the ‘oldest old’ in Singapore is likely to be a woman who has outlived her spouse by many years and is now widowed. After a lifetime of low-paying jobs in the informal sector, caregiving and homemaking, she is left with negligible CPF savings or personal savings.
Previously dependent on her spouse whom she has outlived, she is now dependent on her children for survival. Her security is assured as long as her children continue to support her. However, her children may not have sufficient resources to provide her with lifelong sufficient care as they too, are sandwiched between caring for their own families and aged parents.
