On Jun 13, 2:35*am, "Roger Shoaf" wrote:
"Metspitzer" wrote in message

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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.

If your original question does not get a reply, you can easily disable any
push button phone from making outgoing calls by simply reversing polarity..
By this I mean that you usually have a red and a green wire that are in a
typical phone jack and if these leads are reversed, then the phone can ring,
it will give you a dial tone but the push buttons on the phone will not
work.

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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

I wish I knew that 40 years ago, I hooked up extra phones and a few I
now know were backwards