The morning my mother died, she told a health care worker that her mother and father were “looking for her”. Momma died in 1999 and her faculties were about 80%, so I don’t think this was dementia or senility. Her father died in 1923 and her mother died in 1946.
My Grandmother left us slowly. She spoke with her Mother daily for the last few months. They broke beans together for supper and Grandma called her “Mother Dear”. When she was “on our side of life” she only spoke to Grandpa and my oldest son who was 2 at the time. Mostly she was more “there” than here.