Vietnam veterans entering nursing homes at surprisingly young ages

At a 350-bed medical and rehab facility, Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, which has long been a harbor for World War II and Korean War veterans in the last years of life, Vietnam veterans now make up more than a quarter of all residents, according to nursing home director Fred Sganga. On Friday, July 6, 2018, Newsday interviewed James Brown, a Vietnam veteran dicussing how health problems have landed him and other Vietnam veterans in nursing homes at suprisingly early ages. Credit: Newsday / Martin C. Evans