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Letter Asking the Committee on Ways and Means to Waive HR 2148

For more than a decade, family caregivers participating in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) have provided life-sustaining care to some of our nation’s most seriously wounded, ill, and injured veterans. Many of these caregivers leave the workforce entirely to provide full-time support at home, often saving the […]

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Special Committee on Aging and Veterans’ Affairs, Heroes at Home: Improving Services for Veterans and Their Caregivers

Read the Testimony Chairmen Casey and Tester, Ranking Members Braun and Moran, and Committee Members, my name is Andrea Sawyer, and I am the Advocacy Director for the Quality of Life Foundation (QoLF), a national non-profit organization founded in 2008 to address the unmet needs ofcaregivers, children, and family members of wounded, ill, or injured

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A Road Less Traveled

Caregiving is a journey of at least two people— the caregiver and the care receiver. It’s not a race to the finish. There are detours, diversions, and sometimes roadblocks. Sometimes your journey is a straight, flat four lane highway with light traffic and sunny skies; other times your journey is a winding one lane mountain

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QoLF Testimony US Senate Committee on Veteran’s Affairs

Read the Testimony   “HONORING OUR COMMITMENT: IMPROVING VA’S PROGRAM OF COMPREHENSIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS” STATEMENT OF ANDREA SAWYER, DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY FOR QUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION’S WOUNDED VETERAN FAMILY CARE PROGRAM, BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON VETERAN’S AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, my name is Andrea Sawyer, and I

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