The Board has granted service connection for dementia due to head trauma and remanded the TDIU claim for further development.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on direct evidence of a current disability (dementia) related to an in-service injury (head trauma).
- Claimed conditions
- dementia due to head trauma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- April 25, 2006
- Citation
- 0611802
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