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Elderly Veterans

  • VA celebrates Older Americans Month

    VA celebrates Older Americans Month

    VA supports older Veterans with care that encourages independence and increases access to services that support aging in place.

  • PTSD Bytes: Older adults and mental health apps

    PTSD Bytes: Older adults and mental health apps

    Dr. Colleen Becket-Davenport talks about using mental health apps and older adults with Dr. Christine Gould.

  • VA delivers “a miracle” for rural Veteran’s family

    VA delivers “a miracle” for rural Veteran’s family

    Learn more about VA programs designed to improve the health and quality of life of rural Veterans over the age of 65.

  • Protect your benefits: Beat pension poachers to the punch

    Protect your benefits: Beat pension poachers to the punch

    VA has seen an increase of fraudsters and pension poachers targeting the pension benefits of elderly Veterans, their dependents and survivors.

  • Arkansas Veterans’ chair yoga helps with mobility, attitude

    Arkansas Veterans’ chair yoga helps with mobility, attitude

    Yoga classes increase Veterans' range of motion, improve blood circulation and muscle strength, increase flexibility and improve balance.

  • Providence VA opens Capt. John H. Harwood Research Center

    Providence VA opens Capt. John H. Harwood Research Center

    Researchers working on interventions to reduce Veteran suicide, substance abuse, depression in elderly Veterans and other health care issues.

  • Helping Veterans overcome misconceptions about VA health care: Part 2

    Helping Veterans overcome misconceptions about VA health care: Part 2

    Because of misconceptions, many eligible Veterans don’t get their health care through VA. This blog helps Veterans understand VA health care.

  • Helping Veterans dispel myths about VA health care: Part 1

    Helping Veterans dispel myths about VA health care: Part 1

    Many eligible Veterans don’t get their health care through VA. This two-part blog dispels myths and helps Veterans understand the VA health care they deserve.

  • Tips for caregivers: How to safely move your loved one

    Tips for caregivers: How to safely move your loved one

    Caregivers are responsible for their loved one’s mobility. Here are important factors for caregivers when determining whether to move or transfer their loved one from one position to another.

  • El Paso VA vaccinating Home-Based Primary Care Veterans

    El Paso VA vaccinating Home-Based Primary Care Veterans

    Many Veterans in the Home-Based Primary Care program are elderly and extremely vulnerable to communicable diseases. Nurses and nurse practitioners volunteered to work the weekend to vaccinate them.

  • Vaccine progress for Veterans, VA staff

    Vaccine progress for Veterans, VA staff

    VA is utilizing numerous approaches to get vaccines to as many Veterans as possible on permitted schedules. Here are just a few of the many scenarios at VA medical centers across the country.

  • Veterans’ Happy Birthdays…100 times…and counting!

    Veterans’ Happy Birthdays…100 times…and counting!

    Their humble biographies all come together in the story of the defense of liberty and America. Here are the men and women who wore the uniforms of freedom before many of our parents were born.

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Last updated June 16, 2025

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