Tatiana

Tatiana is 41 years old woman. She has migrated in Italy from Moldova in 2011 and now she lives in a rented apartment in a suburb area in Rome with her Moldovan husband and three sons (the oldest daughter, 20 years old, works as hairdresser and two children who’s studying at school). She works as a domestic worker for different families and she is paid on an hourly basis. She is affected by rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, diagnosed in 2000. Sometimes due to the worsening of her health as stiffness and pain in hands, legs, neck, shoulders, episodes of dizziness, high blood pressure, often experiencing fatigue, fever and difficulty in sleeping, she is not able to work. In these cases, she needs to rest from work as advice from her doctors. She is stressed because she is paid only for her working hours and due to her economic condition, she needs to work to support financially her family. To manage her disease, she refers to a rheumatologist, of the local hospital, in collaboration with her family doctor. She probably could apply for a social support but being immigrant, she doesn’t know how to do it. She uses her smartphone for communicating with her employers.