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10-02-2019 01:41 AM
Do patients actually die from Alzheimer's or dementia? Or do they die from accompaning diseases?
10-02-2019 02:00 AM - edited 10-02-2019 01:58 PM
@Flatbush wrote:Do patients actually die from Alzheimer's or dementia? Or do they die from accompaning diseases?
@Flatbush I put your question into the search on google and there is a lot of info available. I think if one reads the stages of the disease, it would be helpful in understanding it all. My father died from the disease.
Patients die from complications/end stages of the Alzheimer's disease...which vary from patient to patient
10-02-2019 02:23 AM
Especially swallowing, since the brain controls that function alzheimers patients can aspirate resulting in aspiration pneumonia. When they can no longer walk they are susceptible to blood clots. All kinds of problems in the late stages of this horrible disease.
10-02-2019 04:43 AM
Just as people rarely die from the cancer, the ravages related thereto are the case of death and so is the same with many systemic illness --- it is not unusual that death is caused from the secondary complications of the disease and not the "named" disease from which one dies.
Many of these cancer insurance companies got around paying for cancer deaths early on because patients would die of things like brain hemorrhages, liver failure, secondary bleeding, kidney failure, sepsis, etc.
10-02-2019 04:51 AM
@Nonametoday , my older sister had early onset Alzheimer’s and died of sepsis. LM
10-02-2019 08:43 AM
10-02-2019 10:18 AM
They usually die from something else before Alzheimer's kills them. Complications from brain degeneration. Lose ability to feed themselves, falls requiring surgery, pneumonia and other infections, etc.
One at 93 I knew died of congestive heart failure that would have caused her death if she hadn't had Alzheimer's. Another was placed in a nursing home and died from septicemia from a neglected kidney infection.
10-02-2019 11:19 AM
As the other posters have mentioned, people die from complications related to Alzheimer's/dementia - pneumonia, sepsis, blood clots, etc. (I am an RN going on 35 years now working in long-term care for the past 25).
My step-mother recently passed away, she was in a nursing home with vascular dementia, but her cause of death was pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung).
10-02-2019 12:29 PM
My mother has dementia.The nursing home doctor will not stop giving her Seroquel.Now that she is letargic in a wheelchair and barely talks,she shouldn't be given sedatives anymore.
I believe the side effects of Seroquel will be fatal for her.
When she went in this nursing home,she was walking with her cane and she talked like a normal person.
Her dementia was mostly lack of memory.The nurse told me in the first months my mom was walking up and down with no purpose (these were her words).They were giving her Seroquel as needed many times a day.I found out only because I saw her list of meds and I started asking questions.
10-02-2019 08:09 PM
At the end stage of dementia with my dad, he became violent, a fall risk, an lost all sense of modesty.
What killed him in the end was a sudden heart attack.
Every patient is different, so what takes one, will not take another.
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