Correction Appended. Wilma Rudolph, who grew from a sickly child unable to walk into a statuesque athlete of 20 who won three gold medals as a sprinter in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, died yesterday at her home in Brentwood, Tenn., near Nashville. She was 54.
These things lead to an increased risk of pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death in people who have Alzheimer's disease. I imagine urosepsis is another cause of death. There is a blurred distinction between death caused by dementia and death resulting from dementia. Here are some interesting sources: Burns A, Jacoby R, Luthert P, Levy R. Cause of death in Alzheimerâs disease. Age and Ageing 1990;19(5):341â4.
Dementia can also be caused by: 1,2,8. 1  Prion diseases-from certain types of protein, as in CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and GSS (Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome). 2  HIV infection-when the problem is simply termed HIV-associated dementia. 3  How the virus damages brain cells is not certain.