None of these are really new problems, but seem to have intensified over the past couple of years. She is 73 but very young looking / acting. It actually shocked me to write her age, as she doesn't look/ seem at all like a 73 year old. Anyway, she has several problems, and I am wondering what could be at the bottom of it all:
She is very needy and indecisive. She called me today to ask what to do about a jacket she had ordered. I had never seen said jacket and the best I could get out of her about it was that it was red, despite repeatedly asking 'what is it like?' She said it felt small, I advised you don;t have to wear it done up, if you like it keep it etc etc, it was a argain etc.
She hoards plastic bags, or rather gathers up hoarded items (newspapers and letters mostly) and stores them in plastic bags around the house. I was shocked when I went into her bedroom the other day. It is beyond awful, she has bags of stuff everywhere, piled up, and the bed has been pulled into the middle of the room (to make easier navigation through the rubbish I think). I feel so sorry for poor dad.
The items she stores in her wardrobe are not actually used, they just sit there. All her 'current' stuff are on a pile behind the bed.
She stores little glass pots (from desserts etc) which is odd but ok I suppose if it makes her happy, but she doesn't wash them and they smell.
She gets angry and agressive when I broach the subject. I am not sure if/ how I can help.