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Sep 25, 2024

Supporting Military and Veteran Caregivers

Testimony presented before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs on September 25, 2024.

Rajeev Ramchand
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Sep 24, 2024

America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: What Has Changed from 2014 to 2024, and What Still Needs to Be Done?

The authors compare changes from 2014 to 2024 in the characteristics of those who provide unpaid care to wounded, ill, and injured U.S. service members and veterans and provide recommendations.

Rajeev Ramchand, Sarah Dalton, Tamara Dubowitz, Kelly Hyde, Nipher Malika, Andrew R. Morral, Elie Ohana, Vanessa Parks, Terry L. Schell, Gretchen Swabe, Thomas E. Trail, Kayla M. Williams
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Sep 24, 2024

Nine Ways to Improve the Health and Well-Being of America's Military and Veteran Caregivers

The authors present detailed recommendations that can improve support for the 14.3 million people in the United States providing unpaid care to wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans.

Rajeev Ramchand, Sarah Dalton, Tamara Dubowitz, Kelly Hyde, Nipher Malika, Andrew R. Morral, Elie Ohana, Vanessa Parks, Terry L. Schell, Gretchen Swabe, Thomas E. Trail, Kayla M. Williams
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Sep 24, 2024

America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows — Summary

This summary distills a report that has new estimates of the number of caregiving U.S. adults and describes how those caring for wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans compare with those caring for civilians and with non-caregivers.

Rajeev Ramchand, Sarah Dalton, Tamara Dubowitz, Kelly Hyde, Nipher Malika, Andrew R. Morral, Elie Ohana, Vanessa Parks, Terry L. Schell, Gretchen Swabe, Thomas E. Trail, Kayla M. Williams
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Sep 24, 2024

Perspectives of America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: A Qualitative Exploration

RAND researchers present findings from the qualitative arm of the America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows research project, sharing insights from interviews with U.S. military and veteran caregivers.

Priya Gandhi, Kayla M. Williams, Rajeev Ramchand
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Sep 24, 2024

America's Post-9/11 Military and Veteran Caregivers

In this report related to America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows, the authors provide estimates specific to those providing care to U.S. service members and veterans who served after September 11, 2001.

Michael W. Robbins, Rajeev Ramchand, Gretchen Swabe, Kelly Hyde
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Sep 24, 2024

America's Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging from the Shadows

The authors produced new estimates of the number of adults caregiving in the United States and investigated how those caring for wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans compare with those caring for civilians and with non-caregivers.

Rajeev Ramchand, Sarah Dalton, Tamara Dubowitz, Kelly Hyde, Nipher Malika, Andrew R. Morral, Elie Ohana, Vanessa Parks, Terry L. Schell, Gretchen Swabe, Thomas E. Trail, Kayla M. Williams
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Sep 18, 2024

Getting To Outcomes™ for Veterans Service Organizations: Pilot Test of an Interactive Online Implementation Support Tool

This report describes the development and pilot test of eGTO™, an online interactive tool to help Veterans Service Organizations. eGTO is based on Getting To Outcomes™, a ten-step process for implementing, evaluating, and improving prevention programs.

Matthew Chinman, Amy L. Shearer, Joie D. Acosta
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Jul 9, 2024

Respiratory Health Among U.S. Veterans Across Age and Over Time

The authors analyzed data from two large nationally representative health surveys that permit comparisons of the prevalence of respiratory disease diagnoses and symptoms between veterans and their civilian peers.

Robert Bozick, Roland Neil
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Jun 11, 2024

Federal Programs to Assist Military-to-Civilian Employment Transitions: Limited Scrutiny and Substantial Investment in Education Programs

This report identifies 45 federal military-to-civilian transition programs, the variety of benefits they provide, their costs, the most-expensive ones, and how their effects on transition outcomes for U.S. service members and veterans are evaluated.

Meredith Kleykamp, Jeffrey B. Wenger, Elizabeth Hastings Roer, Matthew Kubasak, Travis Hubble, Lauren Skrabala
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Jun 4, 2024

The State of Health and Health Care for LGBTQ+ Veterans: Differences Among Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans, by Identity and State Policy Climate, 2015–2021

The authors of this report use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to describe health care access and health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) veterans.

Megan S. Schuler, Michael S. Dunbar, Elizabeth Roth, Joshua Breslau
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May 16, 2024

Understanding the lived experience of military-to-civilian transition and post-Service life among non-UK veterans

This study explores the lived experience of military-to-civilian transition and post-Service life among non-UK veterans (i.e., former members of the UK Armed Forces with non-UK nationalities).

Linda Slapakova, Edward Bryan, Mattias Eken, Livia Dewaele

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