I suspect that my mother is in the earlier stages of dementia and has been for a while. It seems to be slow progress dementia in my inexpert view. The GP has seen her about this when I managed to arrange a home visit.
She's still driving and there is no concern there, I've seen her driving. She lives in a small retirement flat and got rid (gave to us to keep) a lot of stuff which we didn't really want and we had to get rid of stuff we did want to have her things - like her three piece suite which was better than the one we had as ours was wearing out but we don't like it, it's not our style. She doesn't know this and never will.
She's said she doesn't want anything for xmas as she is getting rid of things but she doesn't really have anything much to get rid of, the stuff she has left is the stuff she really wanted to keep because she likes it. We saw her (socially distanced in the gardens near her flat) today and she had been to the dump to throw stuff away. We're concerned what she is throwing away because she doesn't really have anything to throw away. She recently sold all of her jewellery and presented us with the money because "none of you would want my jewellery" some of which was sentimental to her - things that my grandparents had like my grandfather's retirement watch and their wedding rings and she's sold her wedding rings and all the jewellery my late father bought her.
We can't go to her flat and see if she has been throwing stuff away as no visits are allowed, the local public health department have banned it and the sheltered housing managers are not letting visitors in unless they are there in a professional capacity.