“How do people actually die from Alzheimer?”
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Patients can forget to eat/drink and slowly starve, often needing a feeding tube but then they also usually become very sedentary and there are a lot of health problems that accompany that. When the disease has severely progressed, your brain can struggle to connect with your body for autonomic functions, so you may even forget how to breathe, won’t know to cough up stuff you’ve aspirated, and your heart may start to have issues.
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