How does Alzheimer’s kill you?
In: Biology
It starts with cognitive decline, but when that’s gone proceeds to more basic brain functionality.
Eventually the person will forget how to clean themselves, develop eating disorders, and eventually even breathing is affected.
Death is a side effect of these – poor hygiene and infections, malnutrition, hypoxia, fainting at an inopportune moment (leading to fall trauma), etc.
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