Shandy57
How very sad she is living alone with this. I've just watched 'The Father' where Anthony Hopkins is acting the part of someone with dementia.
Are you able to contact any of her relatives? Or try and get her to the doctor to be assessed so the Memory Clinic will assist? It is obviously time the family came to help to ensure her safety. My 84 year old aunt has been begging an estranged daughter to visit her friend for two years, she has finally turned up, and her mother doesn't know who she is.
That could have happened anyway with dementia. One week my mother’s eyes would light up when she saw me coming. The following week, they were just blank - I was merely a ‘nice lady’ who made her cups of tea and brought her chocolate. It happened that suddenly.
OP, it’s likely that the poor lady will refuse to cooperate with SS and they can’t force their attentions if a person has not been deemed to lack capacity, but informing them anyway will do no harm - they don’t need to tell her who it was. Is the place rented or owned? If rented, could someone official call to do an electrical safety check (a legal requirement for landlords anyway) and either disable the fire or tell her it’s unsafe and remove it, without involving you at all?