Can I block phone numbers being dialed by my mother with looping dementia?

I went into my dad's contacts and changed numbers to people he was calling, I made sure the new # was only 1 or 2 digits off and was not a working number.

As far as the temper tantrums, do what you need to and let her have a temper tantrum. If it gets to outta hand, call 911 to get her transported to the hospital, a psuch ward if needed, to get medicated for her behaviors.

I got my mom the GrandPad tablet. She can only make and receive calls (and video calls) from numbers that I programmed in. It also serves as a digital picture frame, and she can play games, listen to music, and see the weather. It lets you add as few or as many functions as you need, so your loved one doesn't get overwhelmed. Sorry to sound like a commercial, but it's worked really well for our family.

My father was constantly calling for pizza delivery. He now has phone that has no numbers just push buttons that correspond to specific people

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We use a Raz Memory phone for our Mom. You can limit both outgoing and incoming calls. There is no access to texting or internet at all. It keeps her from receiving spam calls and also has a ‘quiet hours’ feature. Not perfect, but very helpful in our case!

Yes, I set up TeleCalm several years ago and it has been a lifesaver! My mom can only receive and make calls to the phone numbers I have entered in her call list. I block unwanted calls on the Telecalm App on my phone and it sends alerts for repeat dialing. A little time consuming to set up, but the TeleCalm staff was so helpful over the phone. I highly recommend! It's about $65 a month.

Do you have a long term plan in place? It might be time to decide that now before a sudden hospital visit.

I found a company called TeleCalm that is fairly inexpensive - a little over $50 a month. You don't have to have an account or connection with another telephone company because it connects through Wifi internet. You can simply put in any phone numbers you wish your loved one to be able to call, and no one else can call them. You can also determine the times of day and night that your loved one can call out, or block certain phone numbers at various times.

We finally had to take my mother's phone out of her room because her Alzheimer's has progressed, and certain family members were having inappropriate conversations with her, but we were very thankful to have TeleCalm available when we needed it!

Does she have her own cell phone? If so it might be time to take it away from her, we had to do that with my step-mother, although she was in AL, so we could call her at the nurses station if we needed to TT her.

She kept calling my brother & I, it was driving us nuts.

My mother calls ME 20 times a day. I made some changes to her phone situation, and I think it could work well for you. I assume your mother hasn’t memorized their phone numbers. My mom started finding her iPhone difficult to use, so I switched her to a picture phone landline ( I was able to get “landline” internet service to her room). She has no phone books, and no friends or family left to speak of, so I am the only contact on her phone. I was able to disable the operator and 911 buttons. I also had the option of pointing every button on her phone to my number, but you could program in family members. If you take away your mother’s phone directory and phone books, I think she would have a difficult time calling people she shouldn’t be calling. You should probably be the sole phone contact for third parties anyhow at this stage. If she is in your house using your phones, you may need to lock them so she can only use her own. Unless she has numbers memorized, this should solve your problem, or at least reduce the number of calls. My mother still calls me 20 times a day, but at least now she can’t call the police when I don’t answer.

Honestly, this thread brings up PTSD for me.

When my mom had a UTI, was hospitalized for two weeks, and was delirious, she would call me 20+ times a day because even though she didn't know where she was, what day of the week it was, etc. she knew my cell number. I couldn't block the hospital's number or her room phone because docs would call me from her room while they were rounding. But, after she called 911 twice in the same night to report she was being held captive in the basement of an abandoned farm house, the hospital removed the phone from her room.

When she went to rehab, it was the same thing all over again for weeks. I started silencing my phone overnight, and I'd wake up to see she had called 15 times overnight, and left 15 hysterical messages.

When she had meningitis and was delusional later that same year, it was the same thing all over again.

Eventually she got better and went back home. Mom had a lot of medical crises and hospitalizations, and because she insisted on keeping every single discharge summary (I mean there were stacks), she could always find the office number for docs and then hysterically call them when her anxiety was spiking. Fortunately none ever dropped her as a patient.

I don't have an answer for you, but trust me: I feel your pain.