vascular dementia

My dad who is 91 and lives at home with support from carers was diagnosed with vascular dementia in March and I live 2hrs away but have cctv in the house to keep an eye on him and we have noticed he is eating in-between meals which he never did before is this a normal thing to start happening or...

Hi, just a little insight to how i my dementia journey started i had 3 small tia's in the late 1990's and a bad stroke in 2005 on new yrs day, i looked in the mirror and the left side of my face looked to be supported by my shoulder i could not talk but i could still think and my thought was...

HI,everyone this is new to me i do struggle to dot the i's and cross the t's so please forgive my lack of grammer, i was diagnosed in oct 2018 with mild vasculer dementia my 2yr journey to that point i can only describe as frightning i saw dead people in my home i got lost many times and had no...

Hi. My mum is 89yrs old. She has had little or no memory for about 5yrs, Doc put it down to old age however about 6 months ago she started hearing voices and she has now been diagnosed with vascular dementia. She has not been put on any medication and was not so bad otherwise until about 3...

The biggest problem with my husband’s vascular dementia diagnosis is that he does not believe that he has it so he is refusing the medications. He had a Deep Vein Thrombosis 5 years ago (before dementia) but now he is in denial about It,too. He needs to be on blood thinners but now he says that...

My Nan was diagnosed with vascular dementia 6 weeks ago after having about a month of becoming increasingly confused, regressing in her ability to walk and eat, she began choking on food, became scared of eating or standing by herself and then she suddenly deteriorated and became bed bound, was...

Hello everyone , I recently joined and this is my first post. I'm 22 and my grandad has recently been diagnosed with vascular demntia and alzhimers, although we was told when he was first diagnosed it was early on set we have all seen a change in him and he is now getting mixed up and forgetting...

My Mum was diagnosed with vascular dementia and paranoid disorder in July 2021. She is under a psychiatrist at the moment. She started hearing music and noise in July 2021. They diagnosed her as having auditory hallucinations. She has never been told the diagnosis they have given her. She...

My mother in law has mixed dementia( vascular and Alzheimers) and has been in a good care home for ten months. The dementia was triggered by TIAs which were discovered following a scan and her experiencing memory loss and some confusion. Yesterday the care home reported she had had a TIA at...

Hi. My mum is 91 and has vascular dementia. She lives with my dad, who is 92. She has recently started to be more verbally aggressive and frankly, horrible to him. My dad is finding it increasingly difficult to deal with her. She constantly asks about where they're going next. She seems to...

Hi everyone im in desperate need of help . My mum has vascular dementia and Alzheimers disease and is suffering so much with sweating , this has been going on for over 2 years . it's really distressing her and also my elderly dad . we have been to the doctors about this but nobody seems to want...

Good morning to you all, I’ve just found this forum and am hopeful you can all help me with understanding how vascular dementia progresses as my mother-in-law is having a very varied experience. For the whole of Feb and March she was completely out of it, speech was random, lying in bed making...

Hi my mother's got vascular dementia, she was 70 when we got told she's 84 now ..we haven't told her she's got it she wouldn't be able to handle it ..doctors put her on..in the past we haven't always seen eye to eye we don't now this upsets me greatly after l visit her l come home and think...

Mum dx Vascular Dementia although not aware of it. Family informed and decided not to tell her as dementia is her biggest fear. Over the last 4yrs she has had 6 falls in total. The latest being last week. She has been enjoying living on her own after years of mental abuse and control from her...

My husband has vascular dementia and Alzheimers and it seems to be progressing quite fast. He has numerous obsessions-usually involving amounts and quantities. He feeds the poor dog up to five times a day-which is not good and he cant retain instructions not to do so even if written down. I hide...

Is there anything that can be done for sexual hyperactivity? Has anyone medicated anyone affected by this? My Dad has it. He is late stage vascular and Alzheimer’s

Nursed mam for 9 years with Alzheimer’s, within a month of loosing her, my hubby was diagnosed with vascular ( approx 5 yrs ago) really struggling at current time