Five Ways Home Care Can Help with Fun and Companionship
Family members with developmental disabilities often face challenges when interacting with other people. This can lead to loneliness, which has its own problems with socializing. Home care providers who specialize in helping adults with developmental disabilities can make companionship easier for your family member while also offering other forms of help.
Talking about Favorite Topics
A big part of socializing and spending time with other people is talking about topics that are enjoyable for your family member. Home care providers can help her to open up to others via topics that are important to her. Even just spending time together can be a huge emotional boost for your family member.
Help with Reading
If reading is difficult for your family member, having someone to lend a hand is important. Your family member can explore books, newspapers, and magazines that might not have been easy to access on her own. As she’s enjoying those pieces of media, she’s also interacting with someone friendly. If she’s able to read a bit on her own, she may only need a little help here and there.
Assistance with Crafts or Activities
Activities and crafts are a great way for your family member to express herself, especially if talking is difficult for her to do. But sometimes motor skills get in the way of what she’s trying to do and having another hand makes everything easier. Home care providers can also make sure that crafts and activities are tackled safely.
Transportation to Group Events
Many family members with developmental disabilities do well in group settings, but transportation can be a problem. If that’s the case for your family member, having transportation help is a huge relief. Home care providers can handle the driving and ensure that your family member is safe and comfortable during the entire trip.
Assisting with Bigger Tasks, Too
Your family member may need help interacting when she’s at group events or she might need help making sure that she understands what arrived in her mail. These are bigger tasks that her home care providers can help with while also offering companionship. As things crop up, you can assess what your family member needs in the way of assistance.
Depending on what other types of assistance your family member needs, home care for adults with developmental disabilities can also help with activities of daily living, such as eating and getting dressed. They can also help with domestic tasks that are difficult to manage alone.
If you are considering resources for people with disabilities in Broad Ripple, IN, please call the caring staff at RSI Cares. Serving Greater Indianapolis Area. Call for Immediate Info & Assistance: 317-471-0750.
As a practicing Registered Nurse, Etelka was keenly aware of a void in quality patient care that could be provided in the home. She embarked upon a journey to develop a home health care agency that would exceed all expectations and become a trusted partner to physicians and patients.
A Distinguished Career From Nurse to Director of Nursing to President of Home Services Unlimited
Etelka’s distinguished career followed a logical progression to her position as President of Home Services Unlimited. She graduated as a nurse practitioner with a Bachelor of Nursing (RN) in 1972 from Meshgorya University in the Ukraine, close to where she lived with her family. She married her husband Phil in 1973 and decided in 1977 that they would relocate to the United States to be closer to family and to come to this land of opportunity. With an eagerness to continue her budding career, Etelka sat for and passed her Boards in the U.S. in 1979.
A Love and Talent for Working with the Elderly
Etelka began her nursing career in the U.S. at Colonial Crest, now part of Golden Living, where shewasthe In-service Coordinator, the Director of Training and Education and Director of Nursing, a position she occupied for several years.
With a group of partners, she co-founded Adept Corporation, which operated group homes for the mentally challenged. The business was successful and in 1996, Etelka sold her share to return to her roots, caring for the elderly.
In January of 1997, Etelka opened Home Services Unlimited as a fully licensed business to provide home health care. In her quest to learn to do better for her patients, she had already obtained a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) in May of 1990 from the College of St. Francis. As President of Home Services Unlimited, Inc., Etelka guides the trusted, experienced care model Home Services Unlimited uses to continue providing excellent home health care.
Giving Back to the Community of Indianapolis
Volunteering for community services is a high priority for Etelka. Her memberships include the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Executive Women in Health Care and the Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care, where she is a member of the Board of Directors.
Etelka has also served on the Board of Directors with Hooverwood Home, a highly regarded geriatric facility, since 1997 and as the President for 2005-2006. Through her community work, she has received several awards and accolades, including the Nora McFarland award in 2002, from the Indiana Association of Home and Hospice Care.
Etelka was honored as a “Health Care Hero” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. The issue can be read online here:
http://mags.ibj.com/activemagazine/welcome/html/ibjhch.html.
After clicking on the link, then click on the image of the issue’s front page. After that, you can browse through the issue or click in a box near the top of your internet browser to adjust the page to 17, which is where Etelka’s article appears.
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