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The aim of this thesis is to perform a literature review regarding the peculiarities of vascular dementia in elderly and relationship to cardiovascular diseases and its prevention. It is well known that Cardiovascular diseases especially, hypertension, diabetes and heart failure, play a role in development of dementia and many studies confirm this. The overlap between Alzheimers and Vascular dementia is great when talking about etiopathogenesis, risk factors and clinical symptoms. Although Vascular dementia may differ in early presentation with milder memory deficit compared to Alzheimer’s disease, it is still difficult to tell them apart since diagnosis is made often late in the progress and both diseases more often coexist than not. Diagnosis criteria for VaD are many and studies have shown that the different methods do not identify the same patients. Since a cure for Vascular dementia is far from being discovered, acting now on dementia prevention, intervention, and care, with particular attention on modifiable risk factors and management of cardiovascular disorder, is the goal of management. This will vastly improve living conditions for older individuals with dementia and their families. However, further research is still needed to find the most effective methods of dementia prevention. |
