Simple cell phone for elderly mom- with Wi-Fi calling

[Anonymous]

Advice please!!!
My mom is 84 and active but is not good with electronics. We got her a Jitterbug flip phone and it is everything she needs from a phone. Simple, easy to make calls and the emergency button has been used 3 times in the past year. BUT it does not work well at her house, except for the emergency button, and never has a signal at our home. We both live out "in the country" but have wi-fi systems. After much more research I have figured out that while the phone does connect to the wi-fi service it does not have WI-fi calling. The company representative promised that the smart phone version would fix that so we went and got that BUT it does not support wi-fi calling either!!!!! Evidently, the emergency button makes calls on a different network which is why that worked.

So, does anyone have a suggestion for a simple to use cell phone that does support wi-fi calling? She only wants it to make phone calls. She will never watch a movie on it. We can go with any carrier, but really need an easy phone.

[Anonymous]

You can get an iPhone and then set up the home screen so it only has a few options. So if she only wants to make calls, you could have only the phone book available.

See the steps here:
https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-up-assistive-access-devcd5016d31/ios

[Anonymous]

I got my mom and iPhone and then connected it a Panasonic cordless phone with Bluetooth. Now she doesn’t have to touch the iPhone to make or receive calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got my mom and iPhone and then connected it a Panasonic cordless phone with Bluetooth. Now she doesn’t have to touch the iPhone to make or receive calls.

Wow, that's neat.(NP) My mom has a fully loaded smartphone but only knows how to turn it on and make/receive calls (and even those are iffy). I think it was free with adding a line, though.