SadieKate

Sorry to hear about your dad. I know how hard family illness can be. I hope you remember to take good care of yourself throughout.

I wanted to chime in about monitoring your dad with a baby monitor. I'll be the first to admit I'm not well versed with them but aren't they essentially just an amplification unit (at least they used to be)?

When I've worked on floors with people having dementia, we used a device called a bed monitor. They send a noise when disconnected from from the bed as in a person getting up out of bed. They can be loud and obnoxious--wait, hear me out--but maybe they have gotten more sophisticated and have volume controls. Unless the baby monitor would send an alarm signal I would be worried about sleeping through the sounds. Here are a couple of links though I am unable to recommend a particular product.

http://www.healthsafe.org/products.p...ms.RT.new.html

http://www.fallcare.com/productoverview.html

Best to you.
Quill