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Vascular Dementia Diagnosis Doctors can nearly always determine that you have dementia, but there's no specific test that confirms you have vascular dementia. Your doctor will make a judgment about whether vascular dementia is the most likely cause of your symptoms based on the information you provide, your medical history for stroke or disorders of the heart and blood vessels, and results of tests that may help clarify your diagnosis. ... Brain imaging Images of your brain can pinpoint visible abnormalities caused by strokes, blood vessel diseases, tumors or trauma that may cause changes in thinking and reasoning. A brain-imaging...

It may be time to pull out your step counters and start adding walking to your daily to-do lists. A recent study indicates taking 10,000 steps each day can help cut your risk of dementia by half. Researchers monitored the steps of 78,430 adults between the ages of 40 and 79 over seven years. Results showed that 9,800 steps a day could reduce the risk of dementia by half, and there was no added reduction of risk if participants went over that number. Walking fewer steps daily, such as taking 3,800 steps, was found to reduce the risk by 25%....

Hillary has vascular dementia, per this doctor. Life expectancy is three to five years, and there is no cure. This is one of the very best analyses I've run across in recent days.