Vascular Dementia

Many people aren’t aware of vascular dementia, and some of those who are aware of it misunderstand the disease. It’s very important to be educated on how the disease could affect you or someone you care about, and how you maybe able to deal with it.

Having an immediate family member who has this form of dementia may increase your risk of getting it.

Vascular dementia is the first form of dementia, which is caused by damage to the brain through deprivation of oxygenated blood. If areas of the brain are not getting oxygen then part of it will die causing the vascular dementia.

In a study that was done called aging, demographics and memory study (ADAMS) it was found that older African Americans are two times more likely than older whites to develop Alzheimer or any other dementia. Some of the reasons that have been discovered as to why older African Americans are more common to have Alzheimer’s is because they are found to have higher rates of high blood pressure, diabetes, along with other vascular diseases. Some other factors that can affect who may end up with Alzheimer’s are lower level of education, and socioeconomic characteristics which are found to be more common in African Americans. In the health and retirement study (HRS) 80% of African Americans were found to have high blood pressure. Other risks that have been found to have increased risk of Alzheimer’s are those with lower educations, low income being below $18,000 a year, and

| | |types of Dementia. Vascular dementia is caused when the brains blood supply is disrupted, the brain|

Assessment of Disease: Pt’s major depression is currently controlled as evidenced by improvement in moods, being less explosive, feeling more relaxed and less anxious according to pt’s spouse. Contributing factor includes dementia. Goals of therapy include improve mood, quality of life, and prevent mortality and morbidity.

Dementia is characterized as a condition where the mental processes of cognition and memory start to deteriorate. It is described as a syndrome that hinders the daily lives of those who have it and is characterized by memory and thinking impairment. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease and the second most common is vascular dementia. Dementia is a syndrome occurring usually, but not limited, to people over the age of 40 and is due to brain damage caused by natural deteriorating, stroke or can be brought on by factors such as excessive drinking or drug abuse. Dementia is best cared for in its early stages and, therefore, an early diagnosis is essential. Recognizing the symptoms by both the dementia patient and the

While vascular dementia develops, it passes out through seven stages which can be divided into three major stages. Those stages are early stage, middle stage, and late stage. First, in the early stage, the cells in the brain receive a constant amount of blood. According to this stage, the person does not suffer from any symptoms and the vascular system works naturally. But at the end of the early stage, the patient starts to be confused and have difficult in thinking. Therefore, the vascular system starts to damage due to some factors. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine “Blood flow to brain tissue may be reduced by a partial blockage or completely blocked by a blood clot” [1]. When this happens, the blood supply becomes less than the

This is a new admission transferred from Florida got here last night with a history of vascular dementia with the addition of head trauma in 05/2016. The patient has minimal communication skills and all of this is related by her daughter, Linda Abrams. Linda tells me that her mother was born in Brooklyn, graduated from high school, worked both at Macy's and a ladies dress factory that her father owned. Around the age of 22, she married had three children. Linda Abrams lives in the Briar Creek area of Durham. Arlene Lambert the second daughter lives in Reno, Nevada. The third daughter is deceased. Apparently, Beulah's husband and she lived in Brooklyn, but in 1954 moved to Edison, New Jersey where he worked in the vending machine

These are atherosclerotic changes in cerebral blood vessels or the formation of an embolus elsewhere in the vasculature that then lodges in a cerebral blood vessel which can lead to transient ischemic attacks and strokes. Recovery from stroke may be impaired in diabetic patients whose blood glucose level is elevated at the time of diagnosis. The following are symptoms of cerebro-vascular disease: dizziness, decreased vision, slurred speech and weakness (Smeltzer & Bare 1996:1054).

In caring for patient with Vascular Dementia Vascular Dementia is a challenging endower. It is essential, that family members of Vascular Dementia client have patience, some creativity, and skills. Knowledge of the disease as well as prevention of injuries helps with safety. Thinking about prevention, the first steps the family taking care of Vascular Dementia client need to have in place is a checklist. This checklist will help make sure that each room in their home is a safe environment for their love one, for example adapt the environment since we cannot change the client behavior. Increase awareness is important as this will help with specific impairments associated with safety hazards in the home environment, for example minimize

Dementia occurs as a series of subtypes, one of which is known as vascular dementia (Brown, 1993). Vascular dementia is a disease which is most commonly caused by impairment to the circulatory system of the brain following damage caused by a stroke (Alzheimer, Scotland., 2002). Vascular dementia is found to be most prevalent in

The pathogenesis of vascular encephalopathy is renewed with cerebral circulation insufficiency in a relatively stable form or in the form of repeated short discirculation episodes, which can be asymptomatic or manifested clinically. The range of structural brain changes at discirculation can vary from changes in separate neurons, glia cells and white matter fibers to infarctions of various volume and location [2, 8, 16], which is finally manifested in focal changes of the brain substance, diffuse changes of white matter and cerebral

If we take a deeper insight towards vascular dementia we often come to the conclusion that it often occurs when one has blood vessel damage or blockage leading to strokes and bleeding of the brain. Taking the time to look at the past of this disease there is evidence to suggest that vascular dementia was used to exclude a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and vice versa however as time has moved on that particular practise is no longer considered ‘consistent’ along with the pathologic evidence allowing the public to educate that the brain changes of both dementia co-exist with each other.

Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a large variety of symptoms associated with sensory loss, memory loss, and motor skill loss (ALS). Dementia is caused due to damage to the brain cells making sending signals to one another harder causing a large effect on a person’s ability to perform activities of daily living such as; using the bathroom, eating, and bathing. The damage also has large effects on the patient’s cognitive ability causing the main symptom, memory loss (ALS). There are two main branches of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia, it accounts for about 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases (ALS). It is caused by a high level of a protein inside the brain cells of the hippocampus, the learning center of the brain (ALS). Vascular dementia occurs when the patient has undergone a type of trauma in the brain, such as stroke or injury (ALS). The main risk factor associated with dementia is age; the older a person gets the higher the risk of developing a type of dementia (ALS). Other risk factors include; cardiovascular disease, poor diet, and inadequate exercise (ALS). Unfortunately, there is no way to diagnose dementia, when a provider suspects a patient is experiencing dementia look at the patients’ medical history, physical assessments, lab tests, and the patients way of performing day to day activities (ALS).