VA Veteran-Directed Care (VDC)

Veteran-Directed Care gives Veterans of all ages the opportunity to receive Home and Community Based Services in a consumer-directed way. The program serves Veterans who need personal care services and ADL help (bathing, dressing, fixing meals), are isolated, or whose caregivers are experiencing burden. Veterans receive a managed service budget; with help from a counselor, they develop a spending plan and hire their own workers (which may include family members or neighbors) to support independent living. Locally in WA the program is co-administered with WA DSHS ALTSA (see related slug).