[GreenLantern]

Great advice in this thread already but I just wanted to add to the not correcting them with a personal experience. My Grandpa battled Alzheimers for years and some days he would think that my Mom had just passed away and so he wanted to talk about it. As others have said we wouldn't correct him, just humor him.

You have to understand that if these kind of events just happened in their mind then they are re living all of the grief and all of the pain. If you correct them that pain and grief is still there but then you can add confusion, embarrassment and frustration to the mix. Imagine feeling all of that at once, it is more than anyone can take. I also think that he derived some happiness from it as well because he was very religious and would tell us all about how well she was doing in heaven.

This is a family thing and you need everyone to pitch in with their share of support. Nobody should have to carry this alone, especially not your Dad. For my Dad it was kind of tough because his brother and sister both lived in BC, two provinces over from Sask.

Also with the name thing that is common to, he had three Grandsons and I could be anyone of them at any given time. Sometimes I was one of his sons as well, just roll with it and smile.