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My mother has dementia and is exhibiting looping dementia behavior that's definitely accompanied with sundown syndrome. Most behavior can be mitigated, but we have lost several doctors and veterinarians due to her constantly calling them several times a day, every day.


Is there a way to block her from calling certain phone numbers? All of them call me multiple times a week; several have openly asked to stop her from calling.


We can't lose anymore doctors in our area. The ones we have now are not refusing service, but they are losing patience with her. I am also losing my sanity, as well, and nothing I say or that my family says can convince her to stop.


We do not have guardianship over her, and we cannot be with her 24/7 because we have to work as well. We spend every spare moment taking care of her, and she is exhibiting no physically dangerous behavior to herself or to others and she is fully aware of where she is living. Any suggestions of outside assistance is met with temper tantrums, and then the shouting begins. So, rational explanations fall on deaf ears.


If there is a way to limit her ability to call certain numbers, it would alleviate some tension in dealing with this horrible disease.

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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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.
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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.
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CaretakerSon1 May 13, 2025
Good ideas, wish it were that simple. It's amazing she can do research on the Internet, but wakes up at 1 am and thinks it's 1 in the afternoon.
So Everytime I change a contact in her phone she looks them up and finds their number again. Funny but frustrating.
It's crazy how in some aspects they are very resourceful, but in just as many ways regressed to toddler lever of understanding and behavior.
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