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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sad that he was 95 and none of his three kids checked up on him for over two weeks. [/quote]

Yes.  I can't imagine not checking up on my elderly mother for even a day.[/quote]

If he had dementia, he may not have wanted calls or been able to participate.  Sometimes people with dementia find calls really aggravating — it’s confusing who it is, why they aren’t there, what they are saying, etc. [/quote]

+1. I stopped calling a family member directly because they had severe dementia and would scream and grunt if you tried speaking to them on the phone. [/quote]

I haven’t had a telephone conversation with my local FIL in about 20 years - he’s needed hearing aids since as long as I’ve known him and has stubbornly refused to even consider. Conversations with him have always been nearly impossible with me shouting at him, then trying to to be patient with his delay tactics - he pauses to discern what he thinks he heard me say. So, no more calls. I’ll text him if I must.[/quote]

Both of my grandmothers lived into their 90s. One was sharp as a tack, but hated talking on the phone because she couldn’t hear. The other had TIA’s the last year or two she was alive and while she didn’t have dementia she did have some loss of cognitive ability and talking on the phone was just not possible. When she was 94 we could sit together and have a nice visit, and knew who I was, but phone calls were distressing. I think I talked to her weekly on the phone until she was about 90 or 91. [/quote]

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