The percentage of elderly people in
developed countries is enormously increasing. In Japan, the percentage of
elderly people will rise up to 44.70% by the year 2040, and that is almost half of
their population. In the United Kingdom and Canada, it will rise up to 33% and so with the
other developed European countries. Their growing populations have brought an
alarming insufficiency of health care providers, thus, creating a big market
for caregivers all over the world.
Since we, Filipinos are widely known to be hospitable and passionate in providing assistance to children, sick people, and elderly, most foreign people who need health care assistance chose Filipinos as their caregiver. Considering that Philippines is an English environment, where English is regularly spoken in everyday life, Filipinos are highly competent at speaking the language, thus, making communication easy.
When live-in caregivers became a huge demand, caregiver training course has become a widespread interest of many Filipinos, young as 18 years old, or as old as 40 years old. Even doctors who were already trained in their field of specialization and at the peak of their career, they chose to study caregiver training program. This is because switching their career and work abroad would give their family a comfortable life in the Philippines and a brighter future.