I am actually doing this. For free, to provide some company to my mother. It started during the first lockdown (I am an expat, so I am already living far away

I am actually doing this. For free, to provide some company to my mother. It started during the first lockdown (I am an expat, so I am already living far away from home but when she was actually locked up at home I wanted to make an extra effort). The way it worked best for me was to use Skype(1) so that I could share the screen with her and show pictures - initially from my own trips and vacations, later from Instagram(2) - and provide audio commentary. 1) Yes, I know, there are 4 billions alternatives: Skype was for me the best because I could configure it on a spare tablet and make it automatically answer my calls with basically no effort required on her part. She is not really good with technology. 2) I am writing this because I hope it helps other people to do the same, no matter if it is for relatives or for this company: almost by definition older people will mostly talk about their own past and this can become repetitive quite fast, while also make somehow difficult to engage for the person talking with them. For me the trick to show and comment pictures together worked very well. YMMV, of course, but I am quite proud of my "discovery".