Granted
The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his cognitive impairment, which was part of his service-connected mental health disability, contributed to his fatal ingestion of battery fluid.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions concluded that the Veteran's cognitive impairment/vascular dementia contributed to his death, and this symptomatology is considered part of his service-connected mental health disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Depressive Features, Cognitive Impairment (indifferentiable from symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Depressive Features), Vascular Dementia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 14, 2025
- Citation
- 25014014
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