I hear this question quite a bit and thought I would share this link to a helpful article: http://alzheimers.about.com/od/typesofdementia/a/Whats-The-Difference-Between-Alzheimers-And-Lewy-Body-Dementia.htm.
In presentations I have heard by experts on this subject, the major difference is described this way:
"With Alzheimer's, information is not retained in memory. It is not there to be accessed. With Parkinson's and Lewy Body dementia (the category of cognition/memory related problems that sometimes occurs with PD), information is received and stored in memory, but the brain has trouble retrieving it"
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