The Armed Forces Retirement Home

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Abstract:

Since the late 1700s, Congress has established numerous federal programs to provide housing, housing assistance, and health care support to certain wounded, ill, or injured servicemembers, military retirees, and other veterans. Some of those programs included the establishment of military asylums for temporarily or permanently disabled servicemembers. Most military asylums have since closed or been transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or state agencies that separately or jointly administer a variety of residential social support programs. Congress also later established the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) as the only federal military retirement community. In so doing, AFRH absorbed two previously existing military asylums, later converted to Department of Defense-affiliated retirement homes. AFRH now provides residential care to military retirees and certain other veterans.

Author(s):
Mendez, Bryce H.
Author Organization(s):
Congressional Research Service
Funding Organization(s):
CONGRESS (US) WASHINGTON DC, WASHINGTON DC , DC
Document Type:
Technical Report/Congressional Report
Publication Date:
2020 Aug 20
Pagination:
3

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution Code:
A - Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement: Public Release

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Collection: TRECMS
Subject Terms
Communities of Interest:
Biomedical
Descriptor(s):
health care, department of veterans affairs, department of defense, health services, congress, united states, law, health, financial management, governments, hospitals, veterans health, communities, digestive system processes, management personnel, materials, military medicine
Keyword(s):
afrh (Armed Forces Retirement Home)
Subject Categories:
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Creation Date:
2021 May 10
Update Date:
2021 Jul 06