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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP.  It is okay to let phone calls to roll into voice mail.
You need to take care of yourself first.

IF Dad is in mid stage you are in for a long run.

We found that virtually every caregiver that we hired said 
they were trained in alzheimers but we ended up having
to do a lot of training ourselves.

What helped--
1.  Having caregivers back off a bit from Mom...give
her a lot of space, not smother her, the
caregivers would escalate the anxiety by being there
and smothering
2.  Exercise
3.  Scheduled life routine
4.  Healthy Diet
5.  Typing up scripts for caregivers to say if he is looking
for his wife or thinks caregiver murdered his wife.
Try out the scripts yourself when you are in face to face
visit then deploy them to caregivers to use.
6.  Hire those that have worked in lock down units.
They will be trained in being understated, unobtrusive
and will have no problem with redirection.
8.  Buy some books on alzheimers/dementia have
them sitting around the house that the caregivers
can pick up and read.  Flag the chapters on redirection
for the caregivers to look at.

Big picture, let the calls roll into voice mail.  Do not
feel guilty about it.  You have to take care of yourself
first....your family.....your job.  Dad is being looked after.

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