The Board granted service connection for Alzheimer's dementia, finding it to be at least as likely as not secondary to the Veteran's in-service exposure to Agent Orange.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided by a specialist in internal medicine and toxicology linked the Veteran's dementia to his dioxin exposure during service, which was conceded by VA.
- Claimed conditions
- Alzheimer's dementia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25057679
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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