My mom got diagnosed with early onset alzheimer’s back in 2009 when she was in her early 40s and she lost her mind a couple months after, but she still lives to this day only it’s not her anymore if that makes sense. I hear lots of people say they lost their loved ones to alzheimer’s and it kills me that my mom can’t get the same fate because (I’m gonna get alot of hate for this) death is far more humane than what she’s going through at the moment.
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Not a physician, but dealing with losing a loved as well, I’m sorry for your situation, it’s tragic.
Alzheimer’s is caused by damage to the brain, “plaques”, a sort of blockage, form that prevent the brain’s connections from communicating properly. The obvious signs are things like memory and function loss. But eventually person will lose important functions like mobility, bowel/urinary control, and speech.
In terms of death, it’s usually secondary things that kill the victim, diseases caused by lack of movement (metabolic disease, blood clots, diabetes, stroke, etc.), lack of sanitation (causing infections), and the reduced ability to fight infections like pneumonia.
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