Home Care for Veterans, Explained

We've written detailed guides to a lot of specific VA programs already. This is the starting point — the broad overview for a veteran or family member who's just beginning to figure out what's actually available.

The VA-Funded Paths

Several distinct VA programs can help pay for or directly provide home care, each with different eligibility:

• VA Aid & Attendance — an enhanced pension for veterans needing help with daily activities, no service-connected disability required. Full guide.
• The Homemaker/Home Health Aide program — VA pays a contracted agency directly for care, based on medical need. Full guide.
• Veteran Directed Care — a flexible budget letting a veteran hire their own caregivers. Full guide.
• PCAFC — a stipend paid to a family caregiver, requiring a 70%+ disability rating. Full guide.
• VA Respite Care — short-term relief for a family caregiver, no disability rating required. Full guide.

Which One Applies to You

The honest answer: it depends on the veteran's disability rating (if any), financial situation, and specific care needs. Someone with a 70%+ rating and a family member able to provide care might look at PCAFC. Someone without a service-connected rating but with real financial need might look at Aid & Attendance. Someone enrolled in VA health care with a medical need for care might qualify for the Homemaker/Home Health Aide program regardless of rating.

Where to Actually Start

An accredited Veterans Service Officer (VSO) can help sort through which programs actually apply to your specific situation, often at no cost. This isn't something you need to figure out entirely on your own from a list of program names.

Private Pay Alongside VA Benefits

Not every family's situation fits neatly into a VA program, and that's fine — non-medical home care is also available privately, and can be combined with whatever VA benefits do apply.

How Interim Fits In

We're a service-disabled veteran-owned, approved VA provider — this isn't secondhand knowledge for us. We're happy to talk through which of these paths might fit your situation, and how our care connects to whichever one applies.

Our 7th Week Guarantee

No long contracts. If you don't feel the difference after six weeks of care at 20 or more hours a week, your seventh week is free.

Get Started

Call us at (801) 401-3515 to talk through your situation.

See our full library of veteran benefit guides linked throughout this page, or learn more about our veterans home care services.