Advanced Disease

Due to increasingly severe dementia and progressive motor dysfunction, patients with advanced HD may become unable to walk, have poor dietary intake, eventually cease to talk, and become unable to care for themselves, potentially requiring long-term institutional care. Life-threatening complications may result from injuries related to serious falls; poor nutrition; infection; choking; inflammation of the lungs due to the entrance of foreign materials, such as food particles, into the respiratory passages (aspiration pneumonia); or heart failure.

	Juvenile HD