“How do people actually die from Alzheimer?”
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Alzheimers disease is causing the brain to slowly get eaten away to nothing. And while it is not initially fatal it does create a lot of fatal complications. Your body does not work without a brain. So most people die from easily preventable conditions for someone with a working brain. Things like exposure from being too cold, dehydration from not drinking water, blood clots from sitting too long in the same position, malnutrition from not eating, etc. When something hurts or gets uncomfortable your brain will automatically do something to improve the situation. But for people with advanced Alzheimers they may not do this and let something uncomfortable fester into something deadly.
In extremely advanced Alzheimers it does become deadly in itself. The brain is helping to regulate body temperature, heart rate, breathing, etc. If the brain starts malfunctioning in these areas people may die as a result.
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