Seventy-five percent to 80 percent of care received by community-dwelling older adults comes from family members or friends, most of whom are unpaid. On average, family caregivers provide 17 hours of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has delayed its deadline for announcing changes to its family caregiver program, giving longtime participants who faced possible dismissal up to three more years of ...

Veterans Affairs officials on Thursday unveiled plans to expand caregiver support services to thousands more families in ...

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; ...

WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) --On the eve of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Senate committees on aging and veterans' affairs examined vets' services and questioned the quality of U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

In this undated photo, Nikki Stephens and her son Noah talk about what it's like to take care of Noah's father, John, a former Marine. The Veterans Health Administration is revamping its caregiver ...

This new resource offers compassionate, lived-experience guidance to those who may be noticing mental health concerns in loved ones. Arlington, Va. — NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has ...

WASHINGTON – Three senators introduced legislation this week designed to expand home and community-based services for aging and homebound veterans residing in the United States. The bill, which is ...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has been a strong advocate for expanding VA caregiver benefits to more generations of veterans. "When someone is injured in war, we say ‘We’re going to take care of them ...