Because of the accelerated aging of the population the frequencies and causes of mortality of pathologies has changed. Dementias has increased greatly, its leading cause is Alzheimer disease. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases also increase with age. The co morbidity between vascular pathology and Alzheimer disease is ver y frequent in the old demented people, being difficult to attribute a causal effect to only one of them. The great importance in the early diagnosis of vascular dementia is that it is preventable, that’s why it is so essential to study it in risk population. A short review of the clinical forms of vascular dementia it is going to be
presented.
