Michelle,
I'm sorry to hear about your Mother! I'll be glad to answer your questions!
By Poloroid, I assume you're referring to those lovely little instant cameras that take the 600 style jnstant film! in short, YES and NO!
In 2008, Poloroid stopped making instant film (Well, they still make it, but the film is the size of a business card, and is not compatible with 600 style cameras). HOWEVER, this Hipster company came along, called "The Impossible Project", the "P" in "Impossible" is backwards for some trendy reason! anyhow, they still make film! both in color, silver shade, and i think black and white! however, this stuff is expensive! they charge you $25 for 8 photos! I don't even think that includes shipping! I love my Poloroids, but until the instant film pops up at Walgreens, I'm sticking to my 35mm cameras!
oh, and Poloroid isn't the only one, I'd love to use my old Kodak Instamatic, if they still made film for it! forgot what style it was, "Panachromic" or something. on the bright side, it came with an original demonstration film cartridge (No film, just transparent plastic, but cool and likely rare!), and a NEW box of film! only catch is, the film expired in September 1971!!
surprisingly, Reel to Reel is still available too, but also expensive! perhaps you'll find some older NOS tapes on eBay? I see them all the time, but i don't do eBay!
Gosh, be careful with the Reel-To-Reel tape players, I've had bad luck with them! my first one was a Sony, look up "THE SONY CURSE" in the Household archives if you want the story, but in short, it blew a capacitor, i re-soldered a capacitor, and it still didn't work, but was kind enough to shock me when i, for whatever reason, poked at the capacitor! I should mail the thing to you, you know a thing or two about this stuff, maybe you can teach me! I stick to mechanical and basic electrical stuff (You should've seen how i made a Sears and Llyod's 8-Track player into one perfect player!).
I'll be sure to get you pictures, It's sitting in the barn!