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Your doctor or neurologist specializing in geriatric disease can do a full work up, tests, scans to sort out if you want. They can sometimes distinguish ALZ from dementia. You might want to check The FDA and NIH website as they have considerable info and research on dementia and ALZ that may be of help to you including clinical trials.
I've had three friends whose parents died from Parkinson's yet did not have ALZ or dementia. As the disease progressed, their speech was more difficult, one had mor difficulty focussing on tv, newspaper, books, or long conversations, one had less interest in conversation or books, yet still enjoyed short reads and newspaper articles. They had a little more difficulty following a conversation or storyline when they were tired.
Hope this helps. I don't think even drs always have a clear understanding of how dementia differs from ALZ and there is still a lot of ongoing research.