Assistance program
Veterans State Adult Day Health Care
$22.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Va Health Administration Center, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 64.026
- What it does
- To provide a community-based program designed to meet the needs of adults with impairments through individual plans of care. This type of structured, comprehensive, nonresidential program provides a variety of health, social, and related support services in a protective setting. By supporting families and caregivers, an adult day services program enables the person to live in the community. An adult day services program assesses the needs of the persons served and offers services to meet those needs. The persons served attend on a planned basis. Nothing in this generic description of adult day services may be construed to modify the specific services or eligibility requirements referenced in the definition of adult day care and adult day health.
- Who benefits
- A veteran eligible for care in a VA facility needing adult day health care and meeting one of the following conditions: (a) has a service-connected disability for which such care is being provided; (b) has a non-service connected disability and sates under oath his inability to defray the expenses of necessary adult day health care; (c) was discharged or related from active military, naval and air services for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty; or (d) is in receipt of, or but for the receipt of retirement pay would be entitled to receive disability compensation. A veteran must also meet State admission criteria.
- Who applies
- 51.52 A veteran is an eligible veteran for payment of per diem to a State for adult day health care if VA determines that the veteran: (a) Is not barred from receiving VA pension, compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation based on the character of a discharge from military service (see 38 CFR 3.12); (b) Is enrolled in the VA health care system; (c) Would otherwise require nursing home care; and (d) Needs adult day health care because the veteran meets any one of the following conditions: (1) The veteran has three or more Activities of Daily Living (ADL) dependencies. (2) The veteran has significant cognitive impairment. (3) The veteran has two ADL dependencies and two or more of the following conditions: (i) Seventy-five years old or older; (ii) High use of medical services, i.e., three or more hospitalizations per calendar year, or 12 or more visits to an outpatient clinic or to an emergency evaluation unit per calendar year; (iii) Diagnosis of clinical depression; or (iv) Living alone in the community. (4) The veteran does not meet the criteria in paragraph (d)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, but nevertheless a licensed VA medical practitioner determines the veteran needs adult day health care services.
- Authorized by
- Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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