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aemeijers

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:48:15 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Jun 12, 11:18?pm, Metspitzer wrote:
I went to visit my aunt in the convalescent center. ?She has dementia.
She seems very sharp minded, but sometimes she talks about things you
know are just not true.

Anyway, her children won't let her have a phone because she has been
known to call the local sheriff's office to complain about a relative
stealing from her (which no one else believes is true).

I was wondering, and will check Monday, if the phone company offers a
service where she would be able to receive calls, but not be able to
make them. ?I am sure there would be a way to disable the phone to
prevent her from making calls, but it would seem to me that if the
phone company offered such a service it might also be a lower cost.
you could probably disconnet the touch pad to prevent outgoing calls,
think inside the phone.
there are outgoing call restrictors but most permt 911 calls

call your phone company but i bet they will charge a lot per month
Being inside a convalescent center they LIKELY have their own PBX
system - MOST of which can be programmed not to accept outgoing calls
without a special code - or at all. SOME can even be programed to
allow only calls to specified numbers from a given extention.

And we have a winner! Other than places with independent apartments with
call buttons, most 'homes' do not have private lines, just extensions of
a PBX, as an 'optional' (aka profit center) extra. (Lotsa hospitals now
charge extra for a phone as well.) Talk to the manager there.

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