Seeing famous actors e.g. Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis suffering from dementia made me wonder in later stages do the people still aware of death? We all kniw death either because of religion belief or thought of the process but we don’t know when we become aware of it or is it just inherit.
I think yes, but how they experience it may be different from how they would have if they didn’t have dementia. It also varies person to person, and time to time.
This elderly lady I know, she would talk about experiences from decades ago as if it was recent. But from time to time she’d also talk about missing the people in those stories knowing that they passed away.
It must be hard for them too trying to work through it all