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Try to distract her to other things if you can. Sometimes, it helps to say, "You'll see her soon." Then you move quickly on to something else.
Telling her her mom is dead will be like telling a young child her mom is dead. She won't understand and she will grieve. Anything you can do to distract her will help.
Carol
Usuaully what I would do is gently try to explain that he had died. Then I would distract her and turn on a TV program that she enjoyed or try to get her to go outside for a walk.
She related a lot of stories from her past, hard to know if they were all true and correct, but I enjoyed my time with my mother hearing about her childhood and her mother and father. I guess for me it was more interesting because I do a lot of genealogy work for my family and it gave me a lot of clues. Now that she is in the nursing home the only stories I hear are complaints or tales about how horrible the nursing home is.