Inside Home Health Care for Veterans

We've written a broad overview of all the ways veterans can get home care. This is specifically about the medical, skilled side — home health, not the non-medical or cash-benefit programs.

Two VA Programs Cover This

Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) sends a full VA medical team — led by a doctor, including nurses and therapists — into a veteran's home to manage complex chronic conditions. This is the most medically intensive option, built for veterans whose conditions make clinic visits difficult. Full explanation.

The Homemaker/Home Health Aide (H/HHA) program pays a contracted agency directly to provide both home health aide tasks and homemaker support, based on medical need assessed by a veteran's VA care team. Full explanation.

How to Know Which Applies

HBPC fits veterans with complex, ongoing medical needs requiring a doctor-led team's regular involvement. H/HHA fits veterans who need help with daily activities and some home health aide support, without requiring the full medical team HBPC provides. Some veterans may use both, since they serve different needs.

Neither Requires a Disability Rating

Both HBPC and H/HHA are based on medical need and enrollment in VA health care — neither requires a specific service-connected disability rating, which surprises some families who assume VA home health benefits are tied to disability compensation.

How to Start

Both begin with a conversation with your VA primary care team — ask specifically about a referral to HBPC or the Homemaker/Home Health Aide program, or request a Geriatrics and Extended Care consult to have your options assessed.

Where Non-Medical Care Fits

Neither HBPC nor H/HHA typically provides continuous, all-day coverage. We're a non-medical home care agency, and we regularly work alongside both VA medical programs, filling the daily support hours between visits.

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 if your loved one has a VA medical team involved and needs non-medical support to fill the gaps.

See our full overview of home care for veterans, or learn more about our veterans home care services.