What fails in the body?
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An Alzheimer’s patient left alone with no care would die from some silly reason, like tripping and hurting their head, or due to starvation because they forget to eat.
An Alzheimer’s patient that can access a good level of care will eventually die of old age or of complications related to eating, breathing, swallowing or being in bed for too long. They could also die from things that would be normally easy to treat, for example if they had an inflamed appendix they would not tell their doctors that their belly hurts like a normal person would, or if they would tell you that their belly hurt you wouldn’t know if they are serious.
My grandpa spent 10 years in a care home, already by the second year he was uncapable of recognizing anyone and was pretty much a vegetable. At the 10th year they had to start tube-feeding him and he barely lasted a week after that.
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