Ambien 10mg symptoms and conditions

I love this little pill I took ambien 10mg for quite some time and it really worked for me the only reason I stopped is because my ins. doesnt want to pay. I will say this, that if I did something after taking ambien like puting things away the next morning I had a tough time remembering where I put them ( like my keys, books ect.) and my family thought that after taking it that I was an actual pleasure to be around they would often ask me to go take my pill

My mother is 88 and has taken Ambien 10mg for many years on a nightly basis. She takes it right as she lies down to sleep and usually goes right to sleep. However, if I call her on the phone after she has taken the pill, she will not remember talking to me and has sometimes just dropped the phone on the floor where it stays until she finds it in the morning. I worry because she lives alone, but she insists that she will not give it up. She is old enough that I think she should have whatever helps her, but I do wonder at times if some of her health problems are caused or worsened by the Ambien.