How Can Someone Die From Alzheimers?
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at
11:32 am
Princess of Genovia asked:
I know what it is & stuff, but how can it KILL someone?
Filed under: Alzheimers
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They may forget to hit the brakes.
Hah on above answer. Well yeah, they could forget their life. Possibly be driving one day, lalalaa.. CRASH.
just check out this webpage
(i copied and pasted everything below VVVV
As the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to coordinate basic motor skills such as swallowing, walking, or controlling bladder and bowel. Difficulty swallowing can cause food to be inhaled, which can result in pneumonia. Inability to walk can lead to bedsores. Incontinence can result in bladder infections. These infections become particularly difficult to deal with because Alzheimer’s patients are unable to understand and participate in their own treatment. While reports say that former President Ronald Reagan, an Alzheimer’s sufferer, is recovering well from his broken hip, such falls often lead to death because the patient does not have the capacity to follow directions or motivation to try to walk again. Such incapacitation again sets the stage for deadly infections. Doctors say it is possible that an Alzheimer’s patient could progress to the point that damage from the disease to the centers of the brain that control breathing could cause death, but patients rarely get that far without an infection setting in