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  Extreme climate, emergencies & disasters

  What can we do to be assured that there are effective plans for evacuation transportation for veterans with disabilities, veterans without access to a car and their families during emergencies and disasters? Also, in many parts of the country extreme climate is becoming the norm. What precautions and special arrangements need to be made to ensure that veterans with disabilities, older veterans, and others who are vulnerable ...more »

  What can we do to be assured that there are effective plans for evacuation transportation for veterans with disabilities, veterans without access to a car and their families during emergencies and disasters?

  Also, in many parts of the country extreme climate is becoming the norm. What precautions and special arrangements need to be made to ensure that veterans with disabilities, older veterans, and others who are vulnerable to temperature extremes can safely use transportation during very hot or very cold weather conditions. Transportation providers in areas with extreme temperatures are one resource likely to have useful information from their own experience on passenger transportation and on maintenance of vehicles.

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  Submitted by hardin 11 months ago

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  transportation volunteers without a vehicle

  Many older adults can use public transportation if they have someone to accompany them. With help from volunteer escort, older person can go to medical appointments, run errands. This idea can be easily adapted to veterans traveling to medical appointments. Recommendation: Encourage the creation of volunteer escort programs; encourage transit providers to give free ride to escort/assistant. This kind of program exists ...more »

  Many older adults can use public transportation if they have someone to accompany them. With help from volunteer escort, older person can go to medical appointments, run errands. This idea can be easily adapted to veterans traveling to medical appointments.

  Recommendation: Encourage the creation of volunteer escort programs; encourage transit providers to give free ride to escort/assistant. This kind of program exists in both urban and rural areas.

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  Submitted by hardin 1 year ago

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  Disconnect between location of medical facilities and patients

  There is now a dialysis treatment center in Mason County, Washington which is used by rural residents who formerly had to travel long distances to other centers for treatment. The new dialysis treatment center is a result of a multi-year effort by a broad community coalition. Is it possible for the location of Veterans Medical Centers to be better aligned with where their patient population lives? Locating facilities ...more »

  There is now a dialysis treatment center in Mason County, Washington which is used by rural residents who formerly had to travel long distances to other centers for treatment. The new dialysis treatment center is a result of a multi-year effort by a broad community coalition.

  Is it possible for the location of Veterans Medical Centers to be better aligned with where their patient population lives? Locating facilities closer to patients is one effective approach for reducing problems with transportation.

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  Submitted by hardin 1 year ago

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  Senior Transportation and Veterans Transportation

  i just read that Regional Valley Transit in Idaho has donated a wheelchair-accessible bus to Parma Senior Center. The Center will use the bus to provide transportation for two primary activities, one of which will be transportation to the Veterans Medical Center.

  Is this a model of partnership (public transit and senior center) that it would be helpful to replicate in other communities?

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