The Department of Veterans Affairs will extend benefits through 2025 for veterans who joined its family caregiver program under the original eligibility criteria, it announced Thursday. The extension ...

Advocates for family members and friends who support severely ill or injured veterans who need daily care are pushing the Biden administration for answers on the future of a Department of Veterans ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published the interim final rule for implementing the Family Caregiver Program of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus ...

When Greg returned home from three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD and serious physical injuries, he had nowhere to turn. He was not the same person as before; he had fallen into a figurative ...

Applications developed for the project will be available in a VA app store in early 2013. The Veterans Affairs Department plans to provide 1,000 family caregivers with Apple iPad tablets equipped with ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Being a caregiver for a military veteran is a whole lot easier with the local Caregiver Support Program provided by Veterans Affairs. The support program was started by the United ...

Ron Anderson quit his job to become a caregiver for his father, Lee, a World War II veteran. He candidly shared that, after his mother, Lee’s wife, died, he had a very challenging, yet extremely ...

WASHINGTON – Following Senator Maggie Hassan’s push for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to address concerns with the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, the VA today ...

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 ...

Beginning Saturday, caregivers of combat veterans who served from the mid-1970s to late 2001 can apply for health care and benefits under the Department of Veterans Affairs program for families. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will open eligibility for one of its caregiver programs to veterans starting Saturday. The Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers program is one ...