I am a month ahead of your parent's timeline and am over 55 as well.
My application was marked "Decision Made" on the ECAS site as of June 29th, but on my tracker, it is still showing Language Skills as "In Progress" and Test as "Not Started". Neither of which is applicable to my application because of age exemptions.
It seems that Different departments deal with specific sections and it then gets passed on to another department as each stage is cleared.
Some sections are backed up more than others.
So it looks like we are all in limbo together.
I see you were asked for FP, I haven't received anything for that for my in-laws as yet. Other than that online status is as yours.