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There’s a lady screaming a lot of the time in a care home next door at 1.30am and heard her again 6.45am, surprised nobody has been in to offer her any reassurance, care, involvement to try and calm her down.

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If she's in a facility and you're not you can discuss this with the admins and tell them that if they don't deal with it you'll report it to APS.

That being said, it sometimes isn't easy to deal with certain dementia symptoms. Often their sleep clock is off, they are agitated and finding the right medication or dosage takes a while, they are reacting to staff interacting with them, etc.
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She is probably having night terrors. I used to wake Mom up then tell her to go back to sleep. There is medication for it. The 6:45 sounds like when they start getting everyone up. Maybe she does not like being woken up.
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I would contact APS (Adult Protective Services) to check it out.
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There was a screamer in my mom's facility. She is finally beyond that stage, but it seemed to go on a long while. Mom takes her hearing aids out at night, so it probably never interrupted her sleep. The woman was unaware of what she was doing and it was just part of her dementia.
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