Coping with agitation(1)

Efi

I am currently caring full time for my father who has moderate dementia.  His partner (not my mother) is away on a 2 week overseas vacation with her friends.  He has pronounced sundowning and gets severe agitation in the evenings. His partner is not answering his messages (phone calls, texts etc.) which is causing increased agitation.  It escalated to a punch in my shoulder tonight because I was cooking something in the manner his partner does.  

I fortunately the punch was not that hard so there were no injury.  I am looking for insight into how to deal with this situation and try to keep his agitation at a manageable level.  She returns in 4 days. 

Ed1937

Efi, I'm glad you were not hurt. I think his doctor needs to be aware of this. There is probably a medication that he can take for the aggressiveness.