Originally Posted by
Sommerfeld
based on personal experience with 80-year-old relatives and cellphones: unless the OP's 84-year-old grandmother is already a regular cellphone user, you'd be better off giving her a small rock to carry.
I got a rock!! (Oh sorry, that's an inside joke on the the DL board).
84 years old....non-english speaker......can't walk....multiple plane changes..... JFK.......MIA......
What did the OP expect? Recipe for disaster. The OP is lucky nothing worse happened.