Educational materials for the elderly insecure user?

Question

User interface

I'm sure I'm not the first to run into this problem. Mom is over 60, she lives three thousand kilometers from me. Yes, Skype and remote access help, but the interfaces are changing, my mother's age is increasing, and now she is already confused in the updated Skype, does not understand the difference between the URL line in the browser and the query input line in the search engine, is lost in an unfamiliar interface, cannot install a new app on android, is driven by bullshit in banners and many more things. And after the summer season, the acquired skills disappear. Yes, we study via Skype with access sharing, we learn new things, but this is not enough.
Can anyone recommend good video sets and other resources for user development to the "confident" level?

Answer 1

The situation is similar with the mother.
Two things will help here.
Just "stupidly throw" into free swimming, not training materials. No one will learn and remember if there is someone to whom you can shift the responsibility. "While comparing models of navigators, I won a call to my husband." Now it’s not the 90s, all the interfaces have already been worked out and are clear enough that a non-IT person could figure it out.
Second. Normal, maximally configured OSes. My choice for desktop is debian + xcfe. A classic view that is easy to switch to for those who have learned to work on a computer on win95-98-me-xp. Sufficiently stable program interfaces - there are no new Skypes, no new furifox designs. Everything is stable. Does not train locker viruses. As a rule, new programs are not needed, if something is enough to show a couple of times. Set up everything. Put everything you need. Forget.
The same is true for mobile phones - iphone. I prefer android myself, but my mother uses the iphone4 that I gave. There are no viruses-lockers-senders of sms. Stable interfaces in ONE style.
All this has been working for the fourth year, without requiring my participation.

Answer 2

My personal IMHO - no textbooks needed. You just need to overcome the fear of technology. A person is afraid to press a button, and therefore pulls you. The second thing to work out is to read what the software writes. In general, this is enough.
PS I am writing from personal experience.