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When an elderly person talks constantly about their deceased spouse

My elderly father won't stop talking about my mother who died last year and my siblings think it's unhealthy, but I don't know if we should intervene.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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What looks like inability to move on may be the necessary work of integrating a lifetime of love with the reality of loss.

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