I once had an elderly neighbor who seemed normal. Admittedly out interaction was limited mostly to exchanges over the fence when we were both working I our yards. One day she called me and asked if my cable TV service was out. I checked and told her mine was, too. About five minutes later she called and asked the same thing. I told her it was. About five minutes later she called and asked again. If the service hadn’t been restored right after that she might have called again...and again. The next time her daughter came to visit her I mentioned the incident and she confirmed her mother was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Steps were being finalized for her longtime care.
Squealer! Why do you hate the aged?!?
Seriously though, you did the right thing.
That’s how my dear mom was. Very specific short term memory deficit. She would walk around the retirement home and socialize perfectly normally, though. But most people knew she would repeat like that.
Me? I wake up early AM and say my morning prayers then go back to sleep. Then a couple hours later I wake up for good and can’t recall for certain whether I said the prayers earlier. So I say them again sometimes. Doesn’t hurt, I guess.