Rehabilitation
Heli organises rehabilitation for people with respiratory illnesses as well as for other groups. Rehabilitation supports the patient’s well-being and their coping with the illness.
The goals of respiratory patients’ rehabilitation are to increase their initiative to treat their illness and manage the symptoms; and maintain and improve their working ability. Rehabilitation also encourages the patient to establish a healthy life style.
In a nutshell, rehabilitation aims at supporting the patient to live a full life with the illness.
Rehabilitation includes peer support
Medical rehabilitation is usually organised in groups of each respiratory illness. This enables the patients to exchange experiences of living with the illness. Discussion and peer support are a central part of rehabilitation.
A good rehabilitation practise consists of non-smoking, support for quitting smoking, regular and adequate exercise, healthy nutrition and weight-control. It also includes the patient’s ability to treat the illness, which engages the knowledge of the illness, self-treatment and medication; support of the family and the near community; good quality of indoor air; and coordination between work and the illness.
Heli’s rehabilitation centres
Kaprakka
Verve
Resource centres of rare and difficult respiratory illnesses
Education
Pulmonary Association Heli provides vocational, general and adult education.
Luovi Vocational Institute organises secondary vocational education. The education aims either at degree programme or rehabilitating training and guidance.
Luovi offers vocational preparatory and rehabilitative education for students that require special support. In Luovi the students receive more guidance, counselling, support and special arrangements than in an ordinary school. They are helped with organising their studies and with work placement.
Luovi offers also vocational supplementary training for adults, apprenticeship education, basic general training, association training and employment training.
More information: www.luovi.fi or tel. +358 20 757 4000.
Supplementary adult training
Heli offers training for social- and health professionals. This training combines the association’s voluntary activities, rehabilitation and knowledge of employment services. Heli trains for example instructors of smoking withdrawal groups. More information about supplementary adult training from Heli’s central office, tel. +358 20 757 5000.
Employment
Heli’s work centres and social enterprises offer employment possibilities for those who would experience difficulties in entering the job market without special support.
Heli has four work centres and two social enterprises. They organise production and work activities, training and other development projects.
The work centres and social enterprises are funded by their production profits, contracts with municipalities, cooperation with labour administration and The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) and by different projects.
Employment units