New to this board and sorry if what I am asking seems basic. But I am really starting to see concerning signs in my mum that I am finding very challenging. I feel horrible even writing that. There are definitely some memory issues but to be honest a lot of it just seems to be downright rudeness. It's like all filters have gone. Whatever you say or do is wrong. She is fast turning into my grandmas whose behaviour she despised.
Examples;
- go to a restaurant there is nothing on the menu she likes (there is plenty) sits and sulks and moans about it even though she had been invited out as a treat
- complains incessantly about an advert on the radio because she doesn't like the woman presenter doing it
- repeats every Daily Mail headline of gloom possible repeatedly yet asks me where I am going this weekend 5 times even though I have told her
- tells me incessantly random facts about people I have no interest in but can't remember something her granddaughter just told her.
Is this it now? Is it just going to get worse? Is it early onset dementia? I don't know.
On the flip side she can sometimes be very sharp about things and is still very active. Yet she has a serious knee problem and is still doing a high impact sport that I suspect will render her disabled at some point. She's 71. However will not stop doing said sport because she knows best.
Is it pig headedness or more to it?