The Veteran's service-connected disabilities necessitate the need for regular aid and attendance of another person, as evidenced by his significant limitations due to his service-connected lower extremity disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected conditions that result in significant functional impairments, requiring assistance with activities of daily living and protection from environmental hazards.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound to the left thigh with comminuted fractures and traumatic arthritis of the left knee and left ankle, diabetes mellitus, traumatic arthritis of the right knee, traumatic arthritis of the left hip, residuales of frostbite of right foot, residuales of frostbite of the right hand, residuales of fractured right wrist, residuales of frostbite of left foot, residuales of frostbite of left hand, scars of both lower extremities, left ear hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2015
- Citation
- 1520283
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