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title: Vascular Dementia Care - Birches Memory Care Community
description: Symptoms of vascular dementia can begin gradually or abruptly. For example, memory and thinking problems often appear immediately after a patient has a stroke.
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# [Vascular Dementia Care - Birches Memory Care Community](https://www.birches.net/resources-for-senior-living/what-is-vascular-dementia)

 Written by [Birches Assisted Living and Memory Care](https://www.birches.net/resources-for-senior-living/author/the-birches-assisted-living) | Feb 8, 2022 5:06:11 PM

## Vascular dementia is a medical term that describes a decline in cognitive abilities including memory, planning, reasoning, and judgment.

When blood flow is reduced to any region of the brain, it becomes damaged quickly and recovers slowly, if at all.

Damaged brain tissue causes the dementia [symptoms](https://www.birches.net/resources-for-senior-living/symptoms-of-alzheimers-disease-and-vascular-dementia). When symptoms are severe, they impair a person’s daily functioning and may affect their ability to live independently. In that case, family caregivers may need to help manage their loved one’s care.

[Learn more about vascular dementia at Family Caregiver Alliance](https://www.caregiver.org/resource/vascular-dementia/)

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