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there are many reasons someone with alzheimer's can die. in my experiences, mostly i have seen patients die from pneumonia, which they get after aspirating. during the late stages of alzheimer's, difficulty swallowing is a very common thing, often patients may "pocket" food or liquid in their mouth and forget or refuse to swallow it, resulting in aspiration, which results in pneumonia often. i have also seen many people die from complications of some other condition they may have, like heart failure, cancer, etc.

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