The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grants due to her physical fitness and active lifestyle, despite needing accommodations for her neurological condition.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have a permanent and total disability that precludes locomotion without aids or loss of use of both upper extremities as required by applicable regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- Frontotemporal Dementia, Aphasia associated with PTSD with FTD
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2026
- Citation
- A26034397
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