For the past 2 years, a client has had increasing difficulty remembering the events of the day, but has been able to recall events from the distant past. The client's motor skills have slowed, despite the absence of arthritis. Recent echocardiography showed the presence of atherosclerosis and the client experienced a myocardial infarction earlier this year. Which neurologic condition does the client most likely have?

Vascular dementia

Explanation:

This is a neurologic condition that is brought about as a result a brain injury caused by ischemic damage e.g ischemic damage with atherosclerosis. Vascular dementia is disease of no known cure but it's effect can be treated or suppressed. It is characterized by patient or client suffering from it to have loss of memory, laughing or crying when it's unnecessary or at awkward times e.t.c it occurs as a result of damage of blood vessels in our brain or break down and it occurs as a result of stroke, diabetes and other factors.