Learn How Participant Assistance & Care Helps an Adult Child Who Has Down Syndrome
Many children and adults with down syndrome function perfectly well on their own. Others need a little support to hold jobs, go to school, or interact with others in the community.
In order to thrive at home and within the community, assistance with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of living is essential. Participant assistance and care is one of the best programs for an adult child with down syndrome who wants to be independent.
What does participant assistance and care offer? The goal is to help with the more challenging tasks faced at home and outside the home. It includes services like these.
Help With Personal Care
How well does your family member manage when showering, getting dressed, or getting ready to start the day? If your son or daughter needs supportive services to get through a morning routine of brushing the teeth, choosing an appropriate outfit for the day, and showering, a specialist in participant assistance and care can help.
Assistance in Stores and Businesses
Managing tasks in a store or business, such as a bank or medical office, can be challenging. With an aide by your son or daughter’s side, there’s someone to help with bill paying, finding the right items to purchase, sticking to a budget, and making appointments.
Daily Monitoring and Supervision
Sometimes, daily monitoring is an essential service. Your son or daughter needs someone to stop in and check that all is going well. The caregiver can gauge your child’s mood, help with emotional management if things seem particularly frustrating that day, and make sure that things that need to get done are completed with a bit of support.
Help Completing a Daily To-Do List
Each day, your child’s independence requires the completion of a daily to-do list. It might mean getting up on time and getting ready for work. Leaving the house on time and using public transportation to get to the job site is another task that can be difficult.
Other household chores need to be done throughout the week. If your child needs help with tasks like laundry, housekeeping, bill paying, and taking care of pets, an aide offers those supportive services, too.
Support at Appointments and Social Events
It’s an appointment day or social event, and your child struggles with these simple interactions. With a participant assistance and care aide, your child has someone to guide them. The aide can help with cues on what to say or do next.
Talk to an expert in participant assistance and care to learn more about the different ways a caregiver can help your child feel like they’re a vital part of the community. One phone call is all it takes to learn more about residential services pricing and scheduling.
If you are considering participant assistance and care in Speedway, 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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