Veteran Directed Home and Community Based Service Program
The VD-HCBS program is only offered to veterans who are interested in, and capable of, directing their own care; or have someone willing to make these decisions on your behalf or a representative. You, using Veteran Administration funding as the payer source for services, will be offered the option of privately employing a caregiver to provide attendant care level services. Attendant Care services primarily involve limited “hands on” assistance. As a participant in this program, you will have an opportunity to direct your own care by hiring, training, supervising, and firing if necessary, a caregiver to provide attendant care services in your home.
Who Qualifies for this program?
The Veterans Administration will determine a veteran’s initial eligibility for this program. San Juan AAA will then provide support services to the veteran and the oversight of the fiscal agent responsibilities for the veteran’s-directed piece of the budget. You must be competent, willing and able to supervise, hire/terminate, train and monitor the attendant care provider and the services provided, as well as act as an employer in general. If you are unable to direct in-home care because of a brain injury or other cognitive impairment, your parent, spouse, legal guardian, or a person possessing a valid power of attorney may make the employment, care and training decisions, and certify any employment documents as well as program applications on your behalf.
