What Can Residential Habilitation Do for Your Family Member?
As you’re looking for solutions to help a family member with developmental disabilities, one answer that might be beneficial is residential habilitation services. This is a specific type of assistance that supports your family member and teaches him how to deal with the challenges of daily living.
RHS Is Assistance Provided Where Your Family Member Lives
One important factor of residential habilitation services is that they’re provided where your family member lives. That means that as your family member learns various skills, he’ll be able to apply them later in a familiar setting. That can be an important factor in cementing that new information. Your family member may be more likely to be able to repeat the skills he’s learning when he’s continuing to perform those same tasks in the same environment.
RHS Helps with Daily Living Activities
RHS teaches your family member how to perform a variety of daily tasks. That might involve learning how to prepare meals or even specific recipes or dishes. Other daily living tasks could be included, too. Skills such as hygiene, paying bills, learning how to budget, and so much more can all be part of what your family member needs to learn. New skills can become a part of the routine as your family member is ready to add them to the repertoire.
Social Skills and Community Involvement Are a Part, Too
But there’s more to residential habilitation. Many people with developmental disabilities find that interacting with other community members and understanding social skills are difficult. There are so many small details that can be confusing about interacting with other people and developmental difficulties make that even more complicated. Learning these skills from someone that your family member trusts can be a huge help.
The Type of Support Varies Depending on Individual Needs
Something to consider is that your family member may need more help with certain skills and tasks than with others. That’s something that’s easy to customize with residential habilitation services. The goals of the program are flexible to account for what your family member needs most at any given time. The amount of help can increase or decrease, depending on needs.
No matter what types of assistance your family member needs, residential habilitation may be able to assist. The program can adjust to meet him where he is, which is a crucial part of providing the support that your family needs.
If you are considering residential habilitation services in Brownsburg, 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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