| Support Letter for HR.542 the Elizabeth Dole Home Care Act. Over the next two decades an aging veteran population will require long-term care. The VA must focus on addressing staffing and infrastructure gaps in order to maintain excellence in skilled nursing care. The VA also need to expand access nationwide to innovative and cost-effective home- and community-based services. HR-542 would enhance the VA's program of long-term services and supports and increase timely accesses to both institutional and noninstitutional long-term services to meet increasing demand. |