This ‘lady’ should be in jail, then scheduled for psychiatric counseling. Of course, at her advanced age of 86, one doesn’t expect her to change very much. That is just who and what she is. It’s almost instinctual. Some behavior is very likely passed on through the genes.
If she wasn’t a kleptomaniac, this lady could have gone into selling or some form of legalized gambling. She gets a high from taking risks. Nothing short of incarceration will stop her. She would steal the Stethoscope from round a Doctor’s neck if there were nothing else of value within her grasp. I can see Halle Berry playing her in a movie after this lady passes on. Halle always looks as though she just swallowed a live bug, so she may need to work on building a smile.
The 1940’s movie star Hedy Lammar was also a notorious shoplifter, even when she reached very old age.
I have met two people who were suspected by others of being kleptomanics. Both people were also Fire Bugs, or people given to arson. One was a victim of child sexual abuse. Don’t know about the other.
Sounds like they were a good match.