{"id":601,"date":"2013-07-18T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caregiversunite.org\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-07-18T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:13:05","slug":"attention-caregivers-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Attention Caregivers of Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you provide care for a U.S. veteran, the following may be of some interest to you.\u00a0 They may be eligible for financial assistance for home care through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u00a0\u00a0 This program is only available to service members who qualify for a veteran\u2019s pension from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Your loved one may qualify for a program called Aid and Attendance, which offers a monetary benefit for assistance with activities of daily living.<\/p>\n<p>All veterans are eligible for up to 30 days of respite care per calendar year.\u00a0 \u00a0On top of that, if your loved one was injured in the line of duty (\u201cservice-connected\u201d veteran), they may qualify for additional services.<\/p>\n<p>For specific eligibility requirements, visit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/geriatrics\">www.va.gov\/geriatrics<\/a> or call 800-827-1000.<\/p>\n<p>This information is from the careADvantage magazine produced by Alzheimer\u2019s Foundation of America.\u00a0 For a free subscription, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alzfdn.org\">www.alzfdn.org<\/a> or call toll-free 866-AFA-8484.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you provide care for a U.S. veteran, the following may be of some interest to you.\u00a0 They may be eligible for financial assistance for home care through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u00a0\u00a0 This program is only available to service members who qualify for a veteran\u2019s pension from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[38,57,268,271],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-of-daily-living","category-personal","tag-aging-issues","tag-alzheimer-disease-assistance","tag-tips-for-caregivers","tag-va-benefits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-9H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}