The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him so helpless as to require the regular aid and attendance of another for the period prior to October 14, 2019. The Board finds that his need for regular aid and attendance is established based on his difficulty with dressing, hygiene needs, attending to wants of nature, and physical or mental incapacity.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him helpless as evidenced by his need for regular aid and attendance due to multiple instances needing assistance in daily activities such as bathing, feeding himself, preparing meals, and managing medications.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, herniated nucleus pulposus with laminectomy and diskectomy with IVDS, degenerative joint disease of the lumbosacral spine, urinary incontinence, residual scars of the lumbar associated with the herniated nucleus pulposus with laminectomy and diskectomy, raticulopathy of the bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19191993
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What this means for you
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