Vascular Dementia

My grandmother is currently suffering from this disease and it has had a tremendous imapct on my family. It started a few years a go, it was mainly just confusion which we thought was part of old age. It then began to grew and I first noticed it for what it was when my grandma was adament that my cousins in London weren't her grandchildren and that my grandfather (who had passed away) was her father. I knew that it was likely to be Alzheimer's but wasn't aware of how severe. It wasn't until a few months later, when I was 12,000 miles away from home, that I found out the diagnosis from my mum. At first I was angered that I hadn't been ...  Read the complete review

I have written a review recently about how I coped as a full time carer with my father's Alzheimer's disease. When dad died mom was officially diagnosed with vascular dementia and I became her full time carer instead. I thought that I would write a review giving my story and hopefully offering some advice to others in the same situation. To give you a bit of background information mom was rushed into hospital in the early 1990's with a pulse of over 180 and after investigation they found that she had some damage to her heart which had been caused when she was a young girl and was exposed to rheumatic fever which killed her younger brother. She was ...  Read the complete review