very valid points, even my siblings (in their 50s and 60s I might add) struggle immensely with even already aging tech, if i want to facetime my sister, I must

very valid points, even my siblings (in their 50s and 60s I might add) struggle immensely with even already aging tech, if i want to facetime my sister, I must first make a costly international telephone call to alert her to the incoming almost free video call, mostly so she can turn on the device (an iPad)! If she hands that device to my father, in his 90's, then it's a real struggle, as he doesn't relate the voice chat to the video chat, and to be honest he gets so little experience of it, he never will. My Uk resident siblings are a little slow on modern tech, and quite comically to me, believe they are up to the minute.... My brother for the longest time found it easier to send me a "linkedin" message than add my email address to his address book!!!! never mind use the WhatsApp he had all along! Slowly they're catching on.... as for Skype, well they missed that completely I think, yet I use it almost every time I make an international call.... oh yes, one more important thing, as my parents aged, we tried to get them to use a handphone (mobile phone), again, a huge problem, as they would never leave it turned on, and again, never knowing when the batteries had drained, so my father would take it cycling, if he needed help, turn it on (or try to) then try to use it, as far as i am aware, it sat its entire life beside a few similar hand me downs on the living room window sill, next to the coiled up charger, waiting for that time when it may be useful (if only it were charged), I am certain that none were ever used. I suggested an Ipad some years ago when they first appeared, my sibling simply cried that they were too complex, it seems even for them, never mind the parents!