The Veteran's service-connected conditions render him in need of the regular aid and attendance of another person due to his inability to dress, undress, or bathe himself.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that limit his ability to perform self-care activities such as dressing, undressing, and bathing.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee replacement, degenerative joint disease of the lumbosacral spine, hearing loss, anxiety disorder, osteoarthritis of the left hip, osteoarthritis of the left middle finger, tinnitus, left knee instability, loss of extension of left knee, radiculopathy of the left lower extremity, malaria, left tibia-fibular fracture, left knee scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18156387
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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