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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go visit and provide your contact information and your brother's contact information to the facility.  Make contacts there who can keep you up to date on your father's condition.[/quote]
+1 It's all about cultivating relationships now - with the wife's daughter, with her son, and with the folks at the facility.  Keep in good touch with your brother too.  As for a visit, if budget allows it could be helpful.  I can't think of a reason not to announce, even if only on short notice, especially if you're willing to stay at a hotel again.  Take back some of those photos with you to hang on the walls in his room at the facility.  ;)  Also, consider within the next year taking a trip out there with the whole family.  When taking children to visit an elderly person in a memory care facility, time your visit in advance - between the facility schedule and the family member's sleep and eating pattern, there's a rhythm to the day and certain times per day are better for visits than others.  Also, short visits over multiple days are better than a marathon visit on one day.

Where does your brother live and how often does he see your father?  [/quote]

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