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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents are now gone, but having dealt with memory care, I can tell you that giving a patient a cell phone or tablet wouldn't have been a great idea - too easy for it to get lost or damaged. Call the facility, ask for the unit or sub-unit nursing station, and they can facilitate a phone call or Facetime. All of these types of facilities are under pretty heavy restrictions - I know it's painful, but unfortunately given how rampant and deadly COVID has been among nursing and AL facilities, I don't think there's really any other option.

Gently OP, you sound like you don't fully appreciate the difficulty of caring for someone with dementia and "physical issues." A good memory care unit can provide better care than another elderly person can do on their own. If your mom is confused by a phone and has physical impairments as well, she probably needs help showering and toileting at times.[/quote]

Everything from my relatives memory care floor gets stolen. Usually by residents who have cognitive decline and don’t realize. Or they like stealing now but it wasn’t something they did before dementia. My aunt bought my relative new shoes. They were expensive, custom shoes because her feet are hard to fit. They were stolen the first day. My aunt went around and found them on another womans feet and had them taken back. [/quote]

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