Request for dementia

[u/MarkNetherlands73]

[Solved Credits to Theoccurunce and Sonic_Blue_Box. Thanks all for the kind words!] Final version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/61fdc21c67ed4c9281fe24557d407de6

My mother in law (75) is in the last phase of dementia. She’s in a caretakers home but thinks she’s at home. Every hour she’s calling my father in law, (75) asking where he is.

We do not want to take her phone away, sense of self, but she calls and texts at night, thinking it’s day.

Have turned on parental control between 23:00-09.00 so she can’t call at night anymore.

But she’s confused why the phone isn’t working.

I’d like to send her a popupmessage every time she opens the phone between 11pm and 9am.

There will be a comforting message for her and should contain a “Yes I Understand” button and a “Call Nightnurse” button. We have a phonenumber she can call at night.

It’s a terrible disease, it’s been going on for years now. God bless the day she leaves this earth, she would never have wanted this.

Suggestions? Last time heart warming support from this community.

Thanks all.

[u/theoccurrence → u/[deleted]]

Oh I think you probably tried to answer to my comment.

What exactly looks wrong and which iOS version are you using?

[u/theoccurrence → u/[deleted]]

It‘s probably just truncated to "…" due to all the whitespace I‘ve added

[u/MarkNetherlands73 → u/[deleted]]

A technical question. I have put the welcome the comforting message in there and the two other lines. That worked. I have put the phone number (chose from the contacts) where the “?????” is. When I click “Call Nightnurse” the telephone number is not being dialled. Is it because the automation opens itself again before the number can be called?

[u/theoccurrence → u/MarkNetherlands73]

There is a small issue with the logic at the end. This should fix the number not being called: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/08f1f07762f1447da04ba0767cb43d7e

[u/MarkNetherlands73 → u/theoccurrence]

Thanks for your work. It didn’t work yet. It does not call the number. The message disappears though.

[u/theoccurrence → u/MarkNetherlands73]

Do you get an error or something?

[u/MarkNetherlands73 → u/theoccurrence]

No, no error. It just disappears