Resources for Veterans, LGBTQ+ People, and Other Groups
Reviewed by: HU Medical Review Board | Last reviewed: November 2022
Coping with a chronic health condition can be challenging for you, your family, and your caregivers. You rely on your healthcare team to manage your condition. However, there are other resources that also offer support, education, and even financial help. They include special health programs and services for military veterans, LGBTQ+ people, and other people facing healthcare challenges.
Health resources for veterans
US military veterans have access to healthcare through the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA offers health checkups with doctors and nurses. You can also book an appointment with experts like mental health and heart doctors.1
The VA also has other programs to help veterans and their families maintain healthy minds and bodies. These programs include:2
- Blind rehab: Support for blind or low-vision veterans and their families
- Caregiver: Support and services for those who take care of veterans
- Chaplain: Meeting the spiritual needs of veterans
- Compensated work therapy (CWT):Promotes work opportunities for veterans with physical and mental health challenges
- Dental care: Dental benefits for qualified veterans
- Disease prevention: Services to stop diseases, such as screening tests and vaccinations
- Older adult care: Services for older veterans, including home-based and nursing home care
- Mental health: Education, healthcare, social services, and research to support mental health
- Prescriptions: Online drug refills
- Rural health: Health services and programs for veterans living in rural areas
- Smoking cessation: Resources and tools to help people stop smoking
- Substance abuse: Programs to address alcohol and drug misuse
- Telehealth: Connecting veterans to healthcare through technology in hospitals and clinics, as well as at home
- Weight management: Supporting healthy eating and exercise
- Women veterans healthcare: Addressing the healthcare needs of women veterans
Health resources for members of the LGBTQ+ community
Many groups and programs focus on improving healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community. These include:3-6