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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.
Some people might think or believe that Alzheimer's causes brain death. In other words, we can say it causes the complete brain to stop functioning. Alzheimerâs disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning. thinking, remembering, and. reasoning.