re: Close relative is in hospice...(update page 5)

I doubt that any two dementias are alike.

I remember an old lady in geriatric evaluation who walked up to me and asked, very nicely, "Do I know you?"

Our two family members who were there had a whole different set of problems. My FIL had been a NYC Cop and knew how to flash his badge to get out of fines, etc. He never got a ticket, but avoided many. His dementia was probably Lewey Body and he thought he was seeing dead bodies. Never pulled out his badge, because he had dead bodies to report. Except they weren't there.
(There was the time that his cat was locked in the guest bedroom and that locked door made the local police wonder, until they got the door open and the cat ran out. And he said, that cat looks just like the cat I buried in the back yard. (So we took the cat back, taking care of her had probably kept him 'normal' for over a year.