adorable, you said your mother could only turn the lights off and on. When my wife was in the hospital (and she was there for multiple Shabbosim once), we were told that turning on a light (an incandescent bulb) is perfectly fine as Shabbos candles. The hospital she was in did not allow candles, so that was what she did. She did not have to add a candle, and she made a brachah on it when she did it.
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