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My advice would be to visit a lawyer and have each one sent a formal letter detailing your dad's diagnosis, your family's plans for him and an admonition to cease all contact with your father without prior approval.
What I would recommend is writing them all an email giving them some guidelines to follow.
Email has helped my situation a bit more at times. My youngest sister, who has jumped in my corner and promised not to get upset with me or give me a hard time about mom asked that I send emails out every so often about how good or bad things are going with mom.
So now every couple of days, I send out an email about what mom, how her behavior is, what we have done and are going to do in the upcoming days. At the end of the emails, I always remind them that mom loves to hear from them.
The interesting thing is that my one sister that would call every 6 weeks is now calling once about every 3 weeks to talk with mom. I consider this a very big plus.
So try emails and see if you bring some calmness to the situation, but be grateful they are talking to your mom.
Bottom line, I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to educate people in order to try and get them to quit. Just tell them that while you still need their calls, when multiple people are giving directions or getting them to make decisions, it causes confusions and problems for you, and it needs to stop. If they stop calling or get mad, well then that's just the way it is. As one of my brothers told me when he was dictating how Dad's schedule would run, he said, "We're all in this as equal partners." Well, that's not true. The non caregivers may all be equal in their relationship status to the parent or in the will, but they are not all equal partners in the caregiving and the day to day operations. And sometimes they just need to hear that.
That said, we all assume here that the writer of the question or the caregiver is always the aggrieved party and all the other siblings just need to quit causing the problem. In some cases however, other siblings may not feel that decisions are being reached that need to be reached. If there are decisions that need to be made that haven't been made, particularly important ones such as executors, power of attorney, or other matters that legitimately require attention, then I suggest that you come up with a way that everyone can bring up these issues and resolve them jointly instead of bombarding the parent with conflicting information and opinions.
My sister and I are both several states away from my mother. One lady even called and said "Mother had a week to live."
It is truly enough to drive you crazy. I finally told them that we hear from Mother's POA and one other person that has written permission to talk to the doctor. The calls have subsided somewhat, but you do have to "take the bull by the horns."
My MIL would get so confused when certain people called - reminding her of her home she no longer lived in, etc. We simply told them sending cards would be better and judging by how my MIL was doing - she would call them. This worked much better for her as it is a day by day disease - one day better than another. And when we were given unsolicited advice - I told them we knew what was best for her as we were there 24/7 as her caretakers.