{"id":18161,"date":"2021-05-14T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18161"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:30:01","slug":"expanding-comprehensive-assistance-for-family-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18161","title":{"rendered":"Expanding comprehensive assistance for family caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0blogs.va.gov\/VAntage)<\/p>\n<p>Eva Blackburn has always grabbed life by the horns. She\u2019s used to overcoming challenges with a positive attitude and nearly nothing getting her down. When she became her husband\u2019s caregiver, she approached her new role with the same positive spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, however, she began to feel overwhelmed and turned to VA for help. \u201cI noticed a change in my husband and went to VA to see what type of assistance was available for him,\u201d she said. \u201cThey told us about the Caregiver Support Program and they\u2019ve supported us far beyond my expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eva and her husband, Stanley, a Vietnam-era Veteran, are now participants in the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC), a component of the VA Caregiver Support Program (CSP). They\u2019re part of a new population of caregivers and Veterans who may now be eligible for PCAFC.\u00a0 Continue reading the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/88481\/expanding-comprehensive-assistance-family-caregivers\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0blogs.va.gov\/VAntage) Eva Blackburn has always grabbed life by the horns. She\u2019s used to overcoming challenges with a positive attitude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}