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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.
Mortality. In 2015, an estimated 700,000 people in the United States age 65 and older will die with Alzheimer's. As the population of the United States ages, Alzheimer's is becoming a more common cause of death.