Classic Alzheimer's dementia typically begins with short-term memory loss and progresses to difficulties with daily living, while Lewy body disease presents with a triad of cognitive impairment, parkinsonism, and visual hallucinations.

“classic alzheimer's you know would begin with short-term memory loss and slowly but surely over time progress to having difficulty you know paying bills and then eventually um needing supervision needing assistance with activities of daily living cooking bathing you know the classic sort of decline may or may not have behavior issues may or may not have some changes in walking”

“classic alzheimer's you know would begin with short-term memory loss and slowly but surely over time progress to having difficulty you know paying bills and then eventually needing supervision needing assistance with activities of daily living cooking bathing you know the classic sort of decline may or may not have behavior issues may or may not have some changes in walking lewy body disease on the other hand presents with a fairly classic triad of symptoms that occur within two years of one another one is an alzheimer's like cognitive impairment that can notably fluctuate so that some days people seem really good and some days they seem really really bad um there is a parkinsonism component where they will often be stiff have trouble rising from a chair shuffle they may decrease arm swing when they walk so that they walk and you know normally when we walk our arms move but their arms don't move they may have more less or i should say less expression on their face so we've got the the cognitive impairment the parkinsonism and very often prominent visual hallucinations”