Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia in older adults. Which of the following is NOT true of vascular dementia?
A)Rapid deterioration can occur
B)Cause is related to cerebrovascular disease
C)Intellectual impairment is patchy rather than uniform
D)Intellectual impairment is global and uniform

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Intellectual impairment as a result of vascular dementia is patchy, rather than global. This type of dementia affects some areas of the brain (like the frontal lobes) more than others. Patients may perform better on free recall tasks than on verbal fluency tasks, for example.

Vascular Dementia Is the Second Most Common Type of Dementia