How does Alzheimer’s kill you?
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It usually doesn’t. Most people have comorbidities. But when it does, it’s the worst death I can imagine. I worked with one lady who only had Alzheimer’s. When I met her, she didn’t speak, but she could walk around the unit, sip her coffee, and sit in on activities. Over years (years…. it’s long) she forgot how to walk, forgot how to eat and drink, at the end she was laying in the bed staring and you could see the fear in her eyes because she had forgotten *everything*…. who she was, what and where she was, how to anything. I didn’t see her last day, so I don’t know if she aspirated, or slowly starved (her end of life plan would not have included a feeding tube) or simply died of “old age,” but the very last day has little bearing on the long slow death I watched her endure.
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