Whole Health

VA is aware of misleading advertisements for free athletic shoes and massages circulating on multiple online platforms. These advertisements, which may include links to the VA Whole Health website, contain misinformation and several inaccuracies. Whole Health offers a vast array of services that may be available to you at your local VA health care facility. Always check with your health care team to see if you quality for any VA service.

What is Whole Health?

Whole Health supports your health and well-being. Whole Health centers around what matters to you, not what is the matter with you. This means your health team will get to know you as a person, before working with you to develop a personalized health plan based on your values, needs, and goals.

Experience Whole Health

What happens when healthcare stops asking "what's wrong with you" and starts asking "what matters to you?" That's the Whole Health Experience — VA's approach to care that meets Veterans where they are and helps them rediscover the life they want to live.

For many Veterans, healthcare can feel like it's about checking boxes. With Whole Health, it's an experience where VA health care is built around you — your story, your values, and what gives your life meaning. Learn more about Veterans who have lived the Whole Health Experience here.

How to Get Started

Start a conversation with your VA health team about Whole Health. Use this Brief Personal Health Inventory to start and guide the discussion of your hopes, desires, and goals.

VA staff and Veteran peers can also support you on your Whole Health journey. Learn about Whole Health practices from other Veterans through the Introduction to Whole Health and Taking Charge of My Life and Health courses. Find the Whole Health contact at your VA here: Whole Health Facility Contacts.

Learn more about getting started with the Personal Health Inventory self-assessment, and Personal Health Plan and how it can shape your Well-being programs and clinical treatments.

The road to better health and well-being starts here, with you.

Start Your Journey With Whole Health Today

Veteran Resources

Whole Health By The Numbers

Learn from the research about how Whole Health's approach helps Veterans manage health conditions and live healthier lives.

Education Handouts

Veteran Whole Health education handouts to support the Whole Health journey.

Additional Veteran Resources

Whole Health Success Stories

#LiveWholeHealth Series at VA News

Practice self-care from home with the #LiveWholeHealth series. Each week brings a new video or recipe—yoga, meditation, tai chi and more—that you can follow along with at home to live healthier and happier.

Focused breathing targets your stress Quick breathing techniques that can melt stress fast and reset your day. Watch the breathing practice	From ache to ahhhh! Want an easier, less painful day? Yoga and tai chi might be the game-changers you haven’t tried yet. Try the yoga and tai chi session
Five ways to boost your wellness Five simple wellness habits—from better sleep to a good breakfast—to help Veterans and caregivers feel their best every day. Explore the five habits	Summer memories on a stick Fire up summer cookout memories with these sweet and savory grilled chicken and pineapple kebabs. Get the kebab recipe

See all #LiveWholeHealth videos at VA News

Professional Resources

Resources for VA clinicians, staff, and Whole Health facilitators.