WEST READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A veteran in Berks is taking action to help other veterans with disabilities live their day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n
“We do in home care. We do state insurance work, we do private duty work, and we do a lot of veterans work,” said Jim Hutchinson, president of Right at Home.<\/p>\n
Hutchinson, a U.S. veteran himself, said Veterans Day is a reminder of veterans’ service, but gratitude should be felt everyday.<\/p>\n
“We currently handle about 20 veterans,” Hutchinson said. “You can only take so many new clients on, but the demand for it is high, and it continues to grow.”<\/p>\n
The agency provides companionship and everyday care.<\/p>\n
“So we go in there a number of times a week to help the veteran just do little things around the house, make sure he’s taking showers, or she’s taking showers, and being groomed,” Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n
The organization also helps heroes suffering from disabilities.<\/p>\n
“If they need assistance and doctor’s appointment, we’ll go along as well \u2014 just being there, just keeping them company as well,” said Angela Brown, Right at Home.<\/p>\n
The biggest reward of all, Hutchinson said, is listening to the stories of the brave men who we can thank for our freedom.<\/p>\n
“We had a vet…the World War II guy. He spent most of his time behind enemy lines in Germany,” Hutchinson recalled.<\/p>\n
Right at Home serves all branches of the military and different eras.<\/p>\n
“Then we have the wave of Korea, and then the wave of Vietnam, and now we’re dealing with some Iraq veterans and things like that,” Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n
However, they all have something in common: their heroism and love for the country.<\/p>\n
“So you get, you talk to these guys, but they’re so down to earth. I mean, they don’t require a lot. They appreciate the help, and they’re just very thankful for Right at Home, our agency, but also the VA,” Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n
Right at Home operates in various states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A veteran in Berks is taking action to help other veterans with disabilities live their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-31835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}