I would love to get my 75-year old sister on-line - her son has given her an old laptop. However, she still cannot work out how to set her TV to record, or how to pick up voice messages from her phone. She went to a computer class for older people at the local library, but she never got beyond learning how to log on. It made her feel stupid so she gave up. (She gave up typing classes when she was 16).
Her sons or I make her flight reservations and I help her to deal with all her financial affairs (I made Barclays repay her PPI long before any publicity about it). She wouldn't want to do her grocery shop on-line, as she enjoys her daily excursion to Morrisons on the little free bus with one or more of her elderly neighbours.
She sometimes asks me to look something up on Google for her, but I can't honestly think of any way in which her life would be better if she could use her computer. She doesn't have a great thirst for knowledge and is very happy with her books, TV, magazines and The Daily Mirror.
We are not much alike, but we love each other very much!
Heated Brush recommendation,please.