Great idea - good for you for doing this.

I read that it's a "Power Outage Kit". If it's a bug-in kit for her at home, you can probably eliminate most of it by taking a walk through your folk's house. For example, why include a folding knife - they probably have plenty of (dull?) kitchen knives that can handle routine house chores.

If it's also something she will have on her, that's a whole 'nother topic.

In either case, I think you should add more illumination options. Regulated LED things that you load with 1.5V lithium cells but that will also run fine on whatever old alkaline, carbon-zinc, or whatever standard dry cells. We can get a little more specific if you wish.

My Mom feels obliged to maintain/lug around anything we load her up with (she could survive the sun going on just on what's in her car, I swear...) If you Mom is at all like that... less is better.

Tom