What Services Make Up Residential Habilitation?
Residential habilitation services make a huge difference in what your developmentally disabled family member is able to do and to achieve. These services give your family member a chance to have the instruction she needs in the way that she most needs it.
Help with Case Management
Every individual’s situation is different and even with habilitation services, those needs aren’t static. Having help with service coordination and monitoring what is working and what isn’t is so crucial for families and individuals. Residential habilitation services offer that kind of support so that there’s an overview of what needs to happen and what’s already working well. When you run into roadblocks with obtaining the right services, case managers can help.
Habilitation Based on Individual Goals
Because of the highly individualized aspects of developmental disabilities, everyone has different goals. RHS coordinators are able to take those goals and apply the right services and supports as needed. Your family member may need help with grooming and daily personal care tasks as well as cooking basic meals and learning to use a budget. As your family member’s goals change, so too will the habilitation itself.
Behavior Management and Social Skills
Knowing how to get along with others well isn’t necessarily something that your family member automatically knows how to do. Habilitation services can help with managing behaviors that are problematic and teaching social and communication skills to your family member. Developmentally disabled people need a little more time in order to master specific tasks. Your family member absolutely can master those tasks, with patience. The ability to repeat those lessons as needed also gives your family member time to take in those teachings.
Vocational Assistance
People with developmental disabilities absolutely can succeed in the workforce and many do want to find jobs that they love. RHS can help teach your family member the things that she’ll need to know in order to be successful at work, like following directions, staying on task, and understanding how to be safe at work. When she is ready to go to work, supported employment may be an option. This involves having help at work.
There’s so much more that your family member might find helpful as part of residential habilitation services. Every day and every goal are tailored toward meeting her needs and anticipating what she may need next. Having the right support, both from you and from RHS, matters a lot for your family member.
If you are in need of care for someone with disabilities in Greenwood, 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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