Sudden confusion, sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm, leg on one side of the body, trouble with speaking and understanding --- these are some symptoms of a person with cerebrovascular accident or stroke. As we all know, cerebrovascular accident or stroke were having difficulty in talking and because of difficulty in talking there will be a times that the client cannot respond to the health care professional properly …show more content…
Aphasia is the result after stroke when the brain tissue is damaged, there are 20% stroke victims. Client with aphasia has unique set of speech and language problem together with the symptoms of same stroke.
According to World Health Federation 2016, the global burden of stroke every year has 15 million people worldwide suffer from a stroke. Almost 6 million people died and 5 million people were left permanently disabled. After dementia, the second leading cause of disability is stroke. Disability may include loss of vision and/or speech, paralysis and confusion. Stroke is the second leading cause of morbidity to the people whose age is above 60 years and it is the fifth leading cause of morbidity in people whose aged is 15 to 59 years.
In many developed countries the incidence of stroke is declining even though the actual number of strokes is increasing because of the ageing