What does she do with it?

My elderly mother uses it for iMessage, facebook, surfing the web, some sports apps, and lots of crossword and puzzle apps.

Maybe she comments on hackernews.

My grandma is 80-ish old and she watches youtube, tiktok, reads “google”, does banking, e-shopping (a lot), messengers, puzzles. All that on a serious level.

When she visits friends and tells stories, they always lament that they refused to learn “these computers”. She’s around 6 years into her tablet which I brought her spontaneously. She collected questions (we write everything down as a rule) and I had to find the way to manage the learning complexity at each visit.

Don’t look at age, just go and buy it for them. With a little help they’ll figure it out just fine.

Edit: don’t buy android ofc