What Types of Therapy Can RHS Offer?
One of the benefits of RHS is that habilitation can help you and your family member to get the assistance that you need, particularly through a myriad of therapy programs. The different types of therapy all meet different needs, some of which may be revisited multiple times as your family member masters some goals and finds a need for new goals.
Speech Therapy
Problems communicating are often misinterpreted as challenging behaviors, which can lead to consequences that no one truly intends. Beyond communication challenges, some adults with developmental disabilities may have difficulty swallowing, which can sometimes be helped through speech therapy. A speech therapist can assess what is happening as your family member talks and develop a plan of action to help her to learn new ways of forming letters and words.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy services for adults with developmental disabilities can help with problems related to functional mobility, pain management, and even other issues, such as respiratory support. There are other areas in which physical therapy may be helpful, too, especially in situations in which health needs dictate that your family member become more active, as safely as possible. The exercises and activities recommended in physical therapy can help your family member to become stronger and better able to meet new challenges.
Occupational Therapy
Much of habilitation revolves around some of the same processes as occupational therapy. Activities in occupational therapy might include mastering a morning routine, including getting up, getting dressed, brushing teeth, and everything else that goes along with those activities. Occupational therapists help their clients to understand and to be able to handle these tasks with greater ease. Treatment starts with an assessment of your family member’s needs and then an outline of goals and activities.
Behavioral Treatment
Depending on your family member’s ability to communicate what’s going on or, more accurately, what might be going wrong for her, sometimes behavioral changes and difficulties are one of the only means she has of communicating that something isn’t working. That doesn’t mean that this is effective everywhere and in every situation for her. Behavioral treatment can help your family member to learn new techniques when she’s overwhelmed or when something isn’t okay for her.
Your family member may need some or all of these therapy programs at various points in her experience with habilitation services. They can all serve her well as she learns the skills that she needs to learn in order to thrive and to achieve even more.
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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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