What Therapy Programs Should Our Family Consider?
Residential habilitations services provide the support someone with a disability needs within a home setting, outside in the community, at work, and in a school setting. One aspect of residential habilitation is a therapy program that improves mental, physical and emotional wellness.
When you arrange these services, specialized options like therapy programs emerge. Learn more about recreation and music therapy and see if it’s the right fit for your family member.
Music Therapy
The Beth Israel Medical Center in Massachusetts studied the benefits of music with premature infants in the neonatal ICU. In this study, 272 infants were exposed to different types of music:
- Lullabies sung by the parents
- A Gato box that played a rhythm similar to the heartbeat
- An instrument created by Remo Drum Company that mimicked womb sounds
All three lowers the infants’ heart rates, but lullabies had the most profound effects. Plus, music also helped reduce the parents’ stress levels. That’s just one of many studies on the benefits of music therapy. Music is found to ease pain, boost immune function, and reduce anxiety.
A music therapy session that’s part of home care therapy helps with focus and relaxation skills. It can boost muscle response, which improves movements and mobility. It also helps promote a healthy emotional response and reduces pain. All of these benefits can help with physical and learning disabilities. It also benefits children who are on the spectrum and struggle with emotional control and focus.
Recreation Therapy
A recreation therapy program is another way to help your son or daughter with communication, fine motor skills, socialization, and emotional responses. Through the use of art therapy, games, pet therapy, and social activities, interactions both inside and outside the home are learned.
It can help a child on the spectrum learn better communication skills in a school setting. Recreation therapy helps with hand-eye coordination and memory skills. Other benefits include learning how to cope with change, improving how well one pays attention, and working on orientation skills.
Therapy services as part of residential habilitation are one way to help someone succeed both inside and outside the home. Make arrangements to have your child work with trained professionals on the best ways to manage frustration, avoid fear and anxiety, and succeed in school or at work.
It’s easy to make arrangements. Complete an online form or call a specialist to learn more about the pricing and care plan that will help your child succeed.
Sources:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/11/music
If you are considering therapy programs in Beech Grove, 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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