What Types of Therapy Can Be Accessed through Habilitation Services?
Residential habilitation services offer a variety of different types of therapy programs that can make your family member’s life easier and that can help her to experience a higher quality of life. As your family member learns more about how to interact in her environment, she’ll have the skills that will help her to keep being involved.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy is a specific type of therapy that relates to helping someone to learn what they need to know in order to live independently. This is a major part of habilitation in general. Occupational therapy can help with specific tasks or it can be a part of helping your family member to improve her overall coordination and motor skills. Occupational therapy often uses games and fun activities to help make the tasks more fun.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy is a way to help people to improve their functional mobility. Whether your family member has experienced an injury or has chronic musculoskeletal issues that hinder mobility, physical therapy may be able to help. There are a variety of treatments within physical therapy, such as kinesiology and physical movement, that can be of benefit to your family member. Physical therapy can also help her to use assistive tools, like a walker, that help to improve her mobility.
Speech and Language Therapy
Speech and language therapy may be helpful for your family member in order to help her to communicate more effectively with people she encounters out in her community. She may be able to communicate with family members but find it difficult to be understood by others. Speech impediments or disorders may have been a part of your family member’s life from birth or they may have developed as part of a chronic illness that has gotten worse.
Psychological Therapy
Psychological therapy may also be beneficial for your family member. Talk therapy can help your family member to deal with emotional aspects of her health that may be creating issues for her. Specific types of psychological therapy, like DBT or dialectical behavior therapy, can help with emotional regulation, if that’s something that your family member is having trouble managing.
There may be other types of therapy that your family member may need or may be able to access. Talk to her doctor about what other types of therapy programs might be right for her specific needs so that you can start to line up those services for your family member.
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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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