Annex 15 DVA’s rehabilitation services for veterans Rehabilitation services provided by DVA DVA’s whole-of-person focus considers all aspects of a person’s life in an effort to return a person to health, personal and vocational status similar to that before they were injured or became ill. The whole-of-person approach has three elements: medical management: assisting a veteran with an understanding of and possible strategies to deal with, their overall physical and psychological health psychosocial support: assisting a veteran with their quality of life and independent functioning vocational support: assisting a veteran to return to sustainable and meaningful employment when ready. DVA’s focus is not about arranging an employee’s return to ‘the same job, same employer’ after a service-related injury or disease, as a return to service is not necessarily possible or desirable. The approach taken to rehabilitation has similarities with some international jurisdictions: The United States recently introduced legislation with a focus on education benefits for service members, veterans and their families. Veterans in New Zealand have access to rehabilitation through a universal compensation system, in addition to further benefits and services offered by New Zealand Veterans’ Affairs. When developing a rehabilitation plan for a client, New Zealand Veterans’ Affairs will consider the social, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of rehabilitation, which has some similarities with DVA’s whole-of-person approach. Veterans’ Affairs Canada also approaches rehabilitation from a whole-of-person perspective and offers all three of medical, psycho-social and vocational rehabilitation to eligible people. DVA case management pilot A new DVA case management pilot aims to provide whole-of-person case management service via personalised, tailored assistance to two groups of veterans and their families:
Annex 15 DVA’s rehabilitation services for veterans Rehabilitation services provided by DVA DVA’s whole-of-person focus considers all aspects of a person’s life in an effort to return a person to health, personal and vocational status similar to that before they were injured or became ill. The whole-of-person approach has three elements: medical management: assisting a veteran with an understanding of and possible strategies to deal with, their overall physical and psychological health psychosocial support: assisting a veteran with their quality of life and independent functioning vocational support: assisting a veteran to return to sustainable and meaningful employment when ready. DVA’s focus is not about arranging an employee’s return to ‘the same job, same employer’ after a service-related injury or disease, as a return to service is not necessarily possible or desirable. The approach taken to rehabilitation has similarities with some international jurisdictions: The United States recently introduced legislation with a focus on education benefits for service members, veterans and their families. Veterans in New Zealand have access to rehabilitation through a universal compensation system, in addition to further benefits and services offered by New Zealand Veterans’ Affairs. When developing a rehabilitation plan for a client, New Zealand Veterans’ Affairs will consider the social, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of rehabilitation, which has some similarities with DVA’s whole-of-person approach. Veterans’ Affairs Canada also approaches rehabilitation from a whole-of-person perspective and offers all three of medical, psycho-social and vocational rehabilitation to eligible people. DVA case management pilot A new DVA case management pilot aims to provide whole-of-person case management service via personalised, tailored assistance to two groups of veterans and their families:
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