My mother (80 years old) has Parkinson's and my father (81 years old) needs home health care to help take care of her - bathing, walking, eating, and supervision. The children come as often as they can, but all have jobs and other responsibilities. He would like help, either financially or physically with home health care to come to their home, to keep her in there rather than a nursing home. My father served several years and was honorably discharged from the military.
I am wondering is the VA offers any financial assistance for their vets. His income is in the low medium and has a house payment, insurance, taxes , medicines and the utilities to pay for. I help with some of this but I'm on fixed income also and can;t afford all.
Contact your nearest County Social Worker office, or Home Health Care office, to ask where to start.
BUT, there is some provision for in-home care, since that is cheaper than having elders in a hospital/long term care place--again, Social Worker should be able to guide you.
IF a Veteran Retired from military service, that is, got 20 years or more time in, then their spouse gets benefits too, though, less than the Vet gets.
If they served active duty in a war zone, or served at least a minimum number of years [that might be 6 or 8 years now?] the Vet themself gets benefits.
IF the Veteran was disabled by military duty, there may be more provisions for care
http://www.va.gov/
and click on veterans Services in the drop-down menu
It's a start, and should be able to find listings of each State's facilities
...contact the one nearest you.
We learned there was a V.A. Clinic near us, that diidn't even register on the radar of the VA Hosp. farther away...we found the clinic by accident [by stopping by the Mall that office was in, looking for something else], and discovered we could get my DH into the system via that clinic.
It is also more convenient to use that clinic, than driving thru heavy traffic for several hours to the "nearest" VA Hosp.!!