Disabled American Veterans - Residence Adaption Grants

By Anne Margarette


The DAV is committed to serving military veterans disabled during service and their dependents and survivors. The DAV has 88 offices throughout the United States and in Rico with roughly 260 National Service Officers who represent veterans and their families generating claims for advantages from government departments. A veteran doesn't have to be a member to get assistance with claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense or other agencies. This help is supplied absolutely free of charge to all veterans.

The DAV announced in October 2010 that the Veterans Association has adopted a rule that can expand eligibility for specially adapted housing and special house adaption grants to permanently and entirely disabled veterans and armed service members. The new rule indicates that those that have suffered extensive burns or have limited movement in two or a lot more limbs or a minimum of 1 limb as well as the trunk. It also makes special household adaption grants obtainable to permanently and entirely disabled veterans and service members who lose use of both hands, those with severe burns and those with inhalation injuries.

Of particular interest may be the home adaption grant that may be as much as $13,000 for permanently or completely disabled veterans with loss or loss of use of both hands, deep burns that limit motion and residuals of an inhalation injury such as pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary illness.

This grant is able to be applied to any home modification; even so the bathroom is typically the focus point for numerous veterans and their families as they attempt to create living easier. It isn't always possible to fully convert a standard family members dwelling bathroom into a disabled access bathroom as a result of developing constraints; having said that there are numerous bathroom aids on the market that can make life for a veteran living having a disability easier. There are non slip mats to give persons confidence when moving on wet and slippery flooring, grab bars, access ramps and shower benches that may be sat on inside the shower to cut down the risk of falling over.

To make sure a safe and secure bathing experience, disabled veterans must consider working with a shower chair with a bath or shower transfer program. A shower chair with transfer method enables an individual with restricted mobility to transfer from their bed into a mobile shower commode chair. The chair is then wheeled into the bathroom, via a normal sized door, and clipped onto a bath transfer bench which enables the chair along with the user to slide over the bathtub lip and into the tub to bathe. The individual remains safely within the seat for the duration of the whole bathing process.




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