Family members who take on the responsibility of caring for a wounded warrior often find themselves balancing financial, emotional, and physical demands that can feel overwhelming. Recognizing this, ...
The Veterans Administration recognizes that family caregivers in a home environment can enhance the health and well-being of veterans. Family caregivers provide crucial support in caring for veterans.
Vietnam veteran Jerry King holds onto his wife, Pauline, as she lifts him into his wheel chair at their home in Anna, Illinois. (Stephen Lance Dennee/AP) Veterans Affairs officials on Thursday ...
The wife of an Army veteran in Kansas has followed the Department of Veterans Affairs' pause of dismissals from its family caregiver program, so she was not surprised when a VA rep called to schedule ...
Steve Schwab, from left, CEO of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation; Caira Benson, a caregiver for an injured post-9/11 Army veteran; Jim Marszalek, national service director for Disabled American Veterans; ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has suspended all ongoing eligibility reassessments of veterans enrolled in its family caregiver program while it reviews the program's qualification requirements.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a very popular program that pays a stipend to those who care for post-9/11 veterans, often family members. In 2018, Congress revamped it to include Vietnam-era ...
Vietnam veteran Jerry King holds onto his wife, Pauline, as she lifts him into his wheel chair at their home in Anna, Ill., in this Aug. 30, 2013 photo. (Stephen Lance Dennee/AP) Since suffering ...