The veteran's service-connected conditions do not render him helpless or so nearly helpless as to require regular aid and attendance. The Board denied the claim for special monthly compensation based on need for aid and attendance.
The deciding factor: The veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities, but his condition does not meet the criteria for needing regular aid and attendance due to his non-service-connected conditions (cerebrovascular accident, seizures, diabetes mellitus, dementia, and PTSD).
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder, partial paresis of the left peroneal nerve, diabetes mellitus with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, shell fragment wound of muscle group XII, hyperthesia of the plantar surface of the left foot, tender scar of the left thigh, tender scar of the left buttock, tender scar below the left scapula with retained metallic fragment, tender scar of the left foot with retained metallic fragment, scar of the left elbow
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2007
- Citation
- 0701867
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