The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including back, lower extremities, shoulder, ankle, wrist, and knee conditions, have caused him to be in need of regular aid and attendance. The Board has granted SMC based on the need for aid and attendance.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities significantly impair his ability to perform daily activities such as eating, preparing meals, bathing, dressing, and ambulating, requiring assistance from his daughter and spouse.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disc disease, left lower extremity radiculopathy, right lower extremity radiculopathy, impingement syndrome of the right shoulder, asthma, right ankle sprain, left wrist sprain, nerve damage of the right wrist, chondromalacia right knee, chondromalacia left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 25, 2024
- Citation
- A24014079
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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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