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Davis 1Jennifer Davis Professer Pang English 102 10 May 2024 Property Maintainance for Disabled Veterans: Annotated Bibliography “About.” I Want To Mow Your Lawn Inc , 2 Aug. 2023, iwan Homowyourlawn.com/about/. The non-pro ﬁt organiza Oon “I Want to Mow Your Lawn” was founded in 2020. This organiza Oon is the closest I’ve found to my idea for the Spark Grant. The founder of the program started the service when he lost his job and was looking for something posi Ove to do. The organiza Oon has since grown to over 1,000 volunteers across the country (“About”). The organiza Oon has been men Ooned on several media pla [orms and supported by celebrity donors. The latest ar Ocle about the organiza Oon that I see is from November 2023, but I see the organiza Oon s Oll ac Ove on volunteer matching websites and Facebook, with pictures of the latest lawns posted there. One way this informa Oon is useful to me is that I wasn’t aware that someone should have insurance when volunteering at someone’s home. Volunteers are covered with accident insurance through the organiza Oon. This organiza Oon also gives me a model of how my project could run with the help of volunteers. Geiling, James, Joseph M. Rosen, and Ryan D. Edwards. "Medical Costs of War in 2035: Long- Term Care Challenges for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan." Military Medicine , vol. 177, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1235-1244. h Hps://doi.org/10.7205/milmed-d-12-00031. This Scholarly Journal addresses the future cost of healthcare for veterans of recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The journal points out that there are many more injured veterans than have been seen in previous wars because of be Her life saving methods Davis 2and di ﬀerent weapons causing damage to the body, but not death (Geiling et al. 1235), . This informa Oon changes the way I was looking at my project because I was thinking mainly of elderly veterans, not realizing that there are are many rela Ovely young people who ﬁt into this category. This study points out that there are e ﬀorts in place to ensure injured service members can avoid nursing home care and stay at home longer, which was the point of my project. Unfortunately, the publica Oon date is 2012, so I’m not sure how the sta OsOcs have changed since then. However, my project doesn’t rely on sta OsOcs in that way, so it should be ﬁne to simply show the contrast between recent con ﬂicts and older ones. The main author, James Geiling, MD, is the recipient of a Dis Onguished Service award from Dartmouth College. He is a re Ored US Army Colonel and is chief of Medical Service and director of the intensive Care Unit at the Veterans Aﬀairs Medical Center in White River Junc Oon, VT. I feel that this gives him credibility as an author of this kind of study, being that he works in the ﬁeld and has been recognized by his peers. Hale-Gallardo, Jennifer, et al. "Enhancing Health and Independent Living for Veterans with Disabili Oes by Leveraging Community-Based Resources." Journal of Mul 7disciplinary Healthcare , vol. 10, 2017, pp. 41-47 . hHps://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S118706. This scholarly journal seeks to highlight the need for the care of disabled veterans from a source outside the government. The reason for this is because the need for not all veterans have access to services provided by the US Department of Veteran A ﬀairs (VA). Furthermore, with the higher survival rate of seriously injured troops, the demand for care is greater than the capacity for care and the needs of veterans with disabili Oes are expected to overwhelm the exis Ong resources of the VHA (Hale-Gallardo et al. 43). Because of these reasons, this paper tries to point to the solu Oon of community-based Davis 3organiza Oons called Centers for Independent Living (CILs). The reason I ﬁnd this journal helpful is because I had ques Ooned in my exploratory essay whether there was an organiza Oon that a veteran could call to get help with various things. The informa Oon about CILs has shown that there is a place where veterans can go for support. Hale-Gallardo, Jennifer, et al. "Serving Rural Veterans with Disabili Oes: A Na Oonal Survey of Centers for Independent Living." Journal of Community Health , vol. 46, no. 4, 2021, pp. 740-751. h Hps://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00941-6. In this scholarly journal, the authors seek to examine how Centers for Independent Living (CIL) support Veterans living in rural communi Oes. The research was funded by the Veterans Health Administra Oon (VHA) O ﬃce of Rural Health and supported in part by a grant from the Na Oonal Ins Otute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilita Oon Research. This paper was helpful in leading me to a local organiza Oon associated with the Centers for Independent Living, Center for Independence. The paper lists ways that rural veterans across the country are helped by their local CIL chapter. Most frequently requested services include informa Oon and referrals to other services, housing related supports, assistance with understanding and naviga Ong healthcare and bene ﬁts (Hale- Gallardo et al. 745). The housing related supports include home modi ﬁca Oons, which may relate to my Grant Proposal. I have reached out to the local CIL branch to determine what “housing related support” includes besides helping veterans ﬁnd housing and housing modi ﬁca Oons for disabled veterans. United States, Department of Veteran A ﬀairs, Na Oonal Center for Veterans Analysis and Sta OsOcs. “Veterans as a Percent of County Popula Oon (FY2019): Washington.” www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/SpecialReports/State_Summaries_Washington.pdf. Davis 4This is a government report concerning the popula Oon of veterans in Washington State. The popula Oon data is broken down into gender, age, income, educa Oon, the county living veterans reside in and which con ﬂicts they were in, if any. This site is the authority on Veterans, being the US Department of Veteran A ﬀairs. This informa Oon is helpful to me because it showed me how many people could use the service that I could create with a Spark Grant. Out of 561,869 veterans, 150,243 of them are receiving disability compensa Oon. Also, 11,522 people are receiving Dependency & Indemnity Compensa Oon, which means they were dependents of long-term totally disabled veterans at the Ome of the veterans death (United States, Department of Veteran A ﬀairs, Na Oonal Center for Veterans Analysis and Sta OsOcs 2). This is the demographic I was looking to serve. Furthermore, I have found from this source that Pierce County is home to about 10% of Washington State’s veterans, making it likely that my service would be uOlized.