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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.
Itâs true, there are all kinds of reasons that an Alzheimerâs patient will die. My grandpa had it and died because he forgot how to swallow and digest food. It was a terrible way to die, but the end reason he died was considered to be from starvation.