VA Benefits For Home Care
Our Veteran Story
A sense of pride comes with telling someone you work for a company that assists Veterans. Employees at Veterans Care Coordination are privileged to be a part of a company that focuses on helping our most vulnerable yet deserving citizens, aging Veterans. Not only do we strive to provide resources and knowledge to struggling families,…
Read MoreWorld Alzheimer’s Month 2022
World Alzheimer’s Month is an international campaign every September to raise awareness and challenge the stigma surrounding Dementia. The campaign theme for World Alzheimer’s Month 2022 is Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer’s, with the campaign message of Together, we can do so much. Currently, there are more than 50 million people in the world with Dementia. This number is…
Read MoreCareSupport: What Your Agency Needs to Know
Veterans Care Coordination understands the overwhelming challenges of the home care industry. We continually strive to find ways to positively connect providers to resources and services that simply strengthen and enrich the experience of everyone involved. A straightforward solution VCC can offer you and your clients is CareSupport. But what is CareSupport? If you utilize…
Read MoreUsing Additional Programs with Pension with Aid and Attendance
We hear it all the time, “My client is currently getting in-home care from Medicaid or VA Choremakers and wouldn’t qualify.” But did you know that Homemaker Services and Medicaid can be layered with the VA benefit Pension with Aid and Attendance? It is another resource the Veteran or surviving spouse can apply for to help pay…
Read MoreHome Care Carries on the Fight for Independence
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ~ Ronald Reagan The American Revolution, also called the United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War, a…
Read MoreDealing with Dementia
It can be challenging to watch your loved ones struggle as their body and mind decline with age, but what do you do if a diagnosis of Dementia occurs? Unfortunately, it happens to the best of us. We start to forget things as we age. Maybe we find ourselves walking from room to room looking…
Read MoreThe Forgotten War We Remember: The Korean Conflict 1950-1953
It seems impossible to believe, but in a war where more than 5 million of its citizens served in the Armed Forces, a conflict could be deemed America’s “forgotten war.” However, that’s primarily the case with the Korean War, which began more than 70 years ago. In fact, if it weren’t for the enduring…
Read MoreNational Vietnam War Veterans Day
On March 29, 1973, combat and combat support units withdrew from South Vietnam, but for the more than 2.7 million Americans that served in Vietnam, their homecoming was less than welcoming. Vietnam Veterans returned to a society that was torn apart by debate over the Vietnam War. Instead of being honored with parades, they were…
Read More10 Things You Should Know About Pension with Aid & Attendance
10 Things You Should Know About Pension with Aid & Attendance Applying for The Pension with Aid and Attendance benefit can be cumbersome and time-consuming. In addition, it can be confusing as it involves many rules and detailed criteria. Home care agencies may avoid promoting this benefit simply because they do not understand it.…
Read MoreFloye Utter: Surviving Spouse of the Month | June 2021
Floye Miller Utter was born in December of 1918 in Rocky Hill, a town 65 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas. She was the ninth child born into the family but the first to be born in Arkansas in the log cabin on their farm. All thirteen siblings were taught in a one-room schoolhouse…
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