{"id":24294,"date":"2025-04-23T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24294"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:53:38","slug":"veteran-finds-purpose-with-immersive-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24294","title":{"rendered":"Veteran finds purpose with immersive technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Army Veteran Dennis Wagner found himself living in a new area and in a deepened state of depression after his wife passed away. \u201cI just wouldn\u2019t do anything,\u201d he said, which significantly impacted his quality of life and the chronic pain he was experiencing.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139571\/veteran-finds-purpose-with-immersive-technology\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/139571\/veteran-finds-purpose-with-immersive-technology\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) U.S. Army Veteran Dennis Wagner found himself living in a new area and in a deepened state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,562],"tags":[1360,1467,87,245],"class_list":["post-24294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology","category-veterans-benefits","category-virtual-reality","tag-immersive-technologies","tag-va-immersive-website","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294","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=24294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24295,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions\/24295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}