Thank you. I am more than willing to take her car keys if she has an accident or gets lost. I think the risk is fairly low for now, in that she is driving at low speeds on city streets. She finds her way there and back so far and she is literally driving only once every 5 weeks for a haircut. Unlike many impaired patients written about on these pages, she is very aware of her memory loss and does not deny her impairment. But she has lost so much independence that I am willing to allow her to drive until I have a definite reason to take the keys. I would not be willing to let her drive on the freeway or at night or (god forbid) if she were drinking. I actually believe she would volunteer to give up driving if she felt she was a threat (and that is the reason she doesn't want to drive to other places that she is less familiar with).

I honor and celebrate you for having the backbone to stand up to the honest reality of your husband’s cognitive decline and resulting safety issues with driving, putting himself and other in danger.
I finally found the backbone- quietly changed the car registration to both names, took it to the dealer and sold it back to them, and got a ride home. When he noticed the car was gone, I told him we had to sell it because we needed the money. I hid the second set of keys to my car, hid the first when I wasn’t in the car, and naturally took the driver’s seat when we went out.
He was really angry at first, I kept repeating we needed the money, he eventually accepted that, and neither he nor any innocent pedestrians or other drivers got injured or killed. That was the bottom line for me.
Anybody remember that terrible accident years ago in CA where a senior drove into a farmers’ market and killed and injured many people? Turned out his family knew he was a danger but didn’t want to address it because it would have “made him really mad”.
Kudos to you for standing up and doing the very hard thing that needed to be done to protect him and the rest of us. Go You, Judy 🏆