Learn the Different Options Available With Residential Habilitation Services
You worry about your disabled family member. You can’t be there to offer the support you know is needed, but you can’t afford to quit your job. Whether it’s your son, daughter, or another family member, you want assurance that supportive care is provided to assure independence and well-being. Residential habilitation services offer precisely what you need.
Independence and well-being are the goals of residential habilitation and support services. For up to 24 hours a day, RHS consultants help their clients with personal care, health plans, and daily activities like going out of the home to run errands.
Say your son was in a car accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. He has a hard time remembering the things he needs to do each day to care for himself while you’re at work. It’s essential to understand the different options available to understand better how RHS helps in a situation like this.
Housekeeping and Laundry
Your son can do household chores if he has some support. He needs guidance remembering where to find the cleaning supplies he needs. He may need some gentle instruction to remember how to sanitize surfaces properly. Help with household chores is an option.
Medical Care Coordination
When there are many medical appointments, therapy sessions, and treatments/medications to manage, it can be challenging for disabled adults to handle it independently. An RHS specialist ensures that all of these medical care needs are met. From medication management to appointment scheduling, the services are carefully planned to target exact needs.
Meals
Would your son benefit from having someone available to assist with meal preparation? Is it better to have someone helping with feeding? That’s another service offered through RHS. They can work on a weekly menu together, go out and shop for groceries, and work together to prepare meals and snacks.
Personal Care and Grooming
With an RHS aide available, the client has someone to offer guidance and support with daily routines like showering, getting dressed, and oral care. If toileting assistance is needed, that’s an option. Once this is out of the way, the aide can help in other areas.
Transportation
Your son doesn’t drive, but that doesn’t mean he has to stay at home. His aide can drive him to stores and businesses so that he has the chance to run errands with as much support as he needs. His aide can drive him to and from his medical appointments and social outings.
Are you ready to find out how residential habilitation services can help your family member? Call a specialist to learn more and to create a personalized RHS care plan.
If you are considering residential habilitation in Lawrence, 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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