how is Alzheimer’s disease fatal?
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The thing with Alzheimer is that it usually affects old people so it’s pretty common that they develop along the line another disease that weaken them and finally kill them. It’s also more common to die of “little” diseases for someone with alzheimer’s because they won’t really complain about their sickness because of the confuse state of mind.
But in young people affected by the disease, you can really see how far it progresses. It’s not only forgetting your life. You start to forget words, orientation, logic, you can’t understand simple command and slowly start to lose motricity because you just forget how to walk. Very late stage alzheimer patient in ther 40’s/50’s can’t walk unassissted or at all.
And you start to forget how to swallow food too so you develop more pneumonia and die and if that doesn’t happen, you can “forget” how to breathe automatically and be put on a ventilator until your body give up for successive infections.
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