Living with vascular dementia
Type: Stroke information
Being told that you’ve got vascular dementia can be devastating, but people with dementia can lead active, purposeful lives. Find information and advice to help you adjust to living with vascular dementia.
Supporting someone with vascular dementia
Type: Stroke information
It can be difficult to know what to do when someone you love is diagnosed with vascular dementia. Find information and advice on how to support someone with vascular dementia.
What is vascular dementia?
Type: Stroke information
Vascular dementia is a type of dementia that happens when the blood supply to your brain becomes reduced. It is a common type of dementia that can be caused by a single stroke, a series of small, silent strokes or small vessels disease.
Failure of drainage of fluid from the brain along the walls of blood vessels in vascular dementia
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This project aims to demonstrate that failure of drainage of fluid from the grey and white matter of the brain is a mechanism underlying Small Vessel Disease, a condition that affects the small blood vessels in the brain which can cause stroke and dementia.
How to improve trials of new treatments for stroke and dementia
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Small Vessel Disease (SVD) is a disease of the small blood vessels in the brain and can lead to stroke and dementia. At the moment, we don't know how to stop SVD developing, or how to treat it. This Lectureship aims to improve future clinical trials that aim to prevent SVD.
Developing new models to better understand and allow testing of new therapies for small vessel disease and vascular dementia
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Small Vessel Disease (SVD) is a condition that affects the small blood vessels in the brain, and it can lead to stroke and dementia. This research programme hopes to increase our understanding of how SVD develops, leading to new ways to investigate SVD and test drugs which may help treat it.
Arlena's story
Type: Take action
Arlena is taking on the London Marathon to celebrate her grandmother, Ursula, who survived a stroke in 2011. Sadly, Ursula passed away in March 2020 after also suffering with dementia. Now, Arlena is running in her memory.
Vascular dementia treatments
Type: Stroke information
At the moment there are no treatments that cure vascular dementia but there are treatments to help with many of the symptoms.
Charities team up to tackle dementia and stroke
Type: What we do
We are partnering with Alzheimer’s Society to tackle the issues faced by people affected by dementia and stroke in a brand new project.
Aphasia and dementia
Type: Stroke information
Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by disease or injury. This causes the structure of the brain to change, leading to the loss of some brain cells.