Tooele County Aging Services: Veteran Directed Care

Tooele County's Aging Services, the area agency on aging in the county Health Department, runs VA's Veteran Directed Care programme for nursing-home-eligible veterans who want to stay at home and hire someone they know and trust as their caregiver; it grew from three veterans to nine in 2025 (435-277-2420).

Also called: Veteran Directed Care, VDC, home care, caregiver, aging services, area agency on aging, nursing home, self-directed, Health Department, Tooele, Grantsville, Stansbury Park, Erda, Lake Point, Wendover, Dugway, Stockton, Vernon, Rush Valley.

For: Veteran or service member.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Tooele County, UTCounty

Veteran Directed Care is a VA programme: VA gives an eligible veteran a monthly budget for home and community services, and the veteran, with an area agency on aging's help, chooses and hires the workers, often a family member or friend. In Tooele County the Health Department's Aging Services runs it: "A program for nursing home eligible veterans who want to live in their home and community as long as possible and who want to be cared for by someone they know and trust." The agreement. The County Council approved a memorandum of understanding with the Veterans Health Administration on October 5, 2021 (contract 21-10-05), under which "VA agrees to purchase VDC from an Area Agency on Aging" and the county is reimbursed for the services and its staff time; Aging Services described it as "an ongoing program that we will run from now on". On October 21, 2025 the Council raised the Aging Fund by $125,000 (Resolution 2025-25) because "Our veterans program is growing from 3-9 veterans served", and the 2026 budget sets the VA revenue at $325,000. How to get it. VA decides eligibility: ask your VA primary care team or social worker for a Veteran Directed Care referral, and tell them Tooele County Aging Services provides it. Aging Services: 435-277-2420.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Tooele County Aging Services: Veteran Directed Care
Gate	Rule
Veteran VA finds needs nursing-home level care	VA decides eligibility on clinical need through its health care system; no particular rating is needed.

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Last updated 2026-10-10.

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