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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Seniors

Mother and daughter on Valentine's Day
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Are You Looking for the Perfect Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Senior in Your LIfe?

Valentine’s Day is not just for couples, it’s for everyone! People celebrate Valentine’s Day to show affection for their loved ones and that could include your parents, grandparents, elderly relatives or family members. Valentine’s Day is the perfect way to spend some quality time with your senior loved ones or aging parents. They also need to know that they are loved, appreciated and looked after, right? So what kind of gift ideas would be great for your senior loved ones?

Here are some ideas to make Valentine’s Day special for seniors: 

Seniors in assisted living, retirement homes, care homes or home care settings may feel lonely because they are not at home or in a familiar environment. This day provides the perfect opportunity to plan some Valentine’s Day activities for seniors. Many family members or grandchildren may decide to send a rose to their elderly loved one and this is a great idea! But there are many other ways to show that you care and that they are appreciated and loved.

Would Practical Gifts For Seniors Be More Suited? Here Are a Few Ideas:

  • A nice pillow
  • Pill Organizer
  • Non-Slip Socks
  • Weighted blanket
  • An E-reader with downloaded books
  • House cleaning service (if they still live at home)
  • Heated Blanket
  • Light Headphones
  • Great Body Lotion
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How About Making Homemade Treats?

You may be concerned about your senior loved one’s dietary restrictions and may want to practice caution when it comes to giving them sweet treats. But it’s Valentine’s Day and everyone deserves a sweet gesture! There are always ways to work around this problem. If you feel your senior is not eating healthy or you want to provide safe and healthy treats for them, be creative with your ideas! You can involve your kids in this activity and make homemade treats for your elderly parents or grandparents. You can substitute milk chocolate with dark chocolate as it’s considered to be a healthy alternative, you can also use a safer alternative to sugar. A heart-shaped dark chocolate brownie would surely make them smile!

What Can Be a Better Gift Than The Gift of Comfort?

Give the gift of easy dressing solutions. What could be a better gift than the gift of comfort? If your senior loved one is at a nursing facility or a residential care facility, providing them with easy dressing solutions will make their life easier. If your aging parents are in a home care setting, adaptive clothing will be a great gift for them and their caregivers. Valentine’s Day is the day to show love and affection. What better way to show them you care? Adaptive Clothing includes open back tops, side open pants or shirts with magnetic buttons that are great for those with arthritis or wheelchair users. Easy dressing solutions save time and alleviate discomfort for the wearer as well as the caretaker.

Help Them Spend Quality Time with Family & Friends

Valentine’s Day can provide the perfect opportunity to have a get together for your family members, friends, and senior loved ones. Since they live alone or family is busy, often seniors feel a sense of isolation, boredom, and loneliness and all these effect their mental health. There are many ways to help prevent senior isolation and intimate gatherings are one of them.

If you live far from your senior loved ones, make frequent contact with them leading up any occasion that may be coming up. If time difference is an issue, call them before you get to work or after you are done for the day. This Valentine’s Day, maybe you can catch a movie with them and provide some entertainment that will be fun for all of you.

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How About a Lesson in Technology?

Technology has made it easier to stay in touch with our loved ones. If your senior parent or grandparent is already proficient with social media that’s great. If they are not, then teaching them will help them avoid boredom! They will be able to stay in touch with you and they will also stay busy.

Help your Senior Stay Active and Safe

For many seniors, common foot ailments like bunions, corns, diabetes, and other podiatry foot problems cause a lot of discomfort and pain, discouraging from exercise. However it can boost both their mental and physical well being. How can you make exercise easier for your elderly loved one? We’ve got some great recommendations here.

Have You Considered a Therapy Lamp?

You could get your senior family member a therapy lamp. Studies suggest that exposure to bright light from a special lamp or lightbox can help make up for the sunlight you’re not getting naturally. There are other amazing practical gift ideas at the end of this blog post, check them out and tell us what you think!

Mentally Stimulating Activities for Seniors in Assisted Living

February is not just the month of Valentine’s Day it is also National Haiku Month. Get creative and involve your elderly loved one in an activity that will make them feel inspired. Everyone participating in the group can write a Haiku Poem on a piece of paper and read it out. You can set a theme or topic around the activity, so everybody gets a chance to exercise their creative muscle. Collect all the poems and turn them into a craft-based activity, make a collage and pin them to a board so they can see and relive the moments. This activity can be organized over a Zoom call so family members can participate if they are all meeting virtually!

The Classic Valentine’s Gesture? Flowers!

Valentine’s Day gesture almost always includes flowers. You can never go wrong with fresh blooms. Everyone loves to give or receive flowers, they denote happiness, calm and joy. You can either have a bouquet delivered to your senior loved one’s nursing facility or home along with a handwritten note. Why not take a gorgeous floral bouquet when you go visit them? You can also plant their favorite flower in a pot and gift it to them. It is something they can look after and nurture. Your elderly grandparents or aging parents will enjoy for a longer period.

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Give a Gift Card

Many people struggle to get the right gift because they are not sure if their loved ones will like what they get. There is a lot of freedom with gift cards and it allows the receiver to purchase what they need. For senior loved ones looking for ease of dressing, Silvert’s gift cards are the perfect way to give the gift of comfort.

Do They Enjoy Reading?

If your older family member loves to read, you can give them the gift card from a local bookstore or even better a subscription to a magazine you know they love to read! Almost every store provides the facility of buying a gift card so go ahead and make Valentine’s Day special and cheerful for your elderly family members or friends.

Related: Are you looking for gifts for someone in a Nursing Care Facility? Click here to read more!

Comments

  • Klara says:

    This is just a wonderful gift ideas list!
    My mother lives with my sister. When I come to visit them, I always try to bring her something she needs. These are often warm shoes, socks, a hand warmer (it was on the list, I just want to emphasize that these are important little things).
    This year I planned something unusual. My sister and I are making a 3D family tree for our family. We ordered it in 3D Generation https://www.3dgeneration.com
    Our family is very big and I think my mother will be very happy with such a gift. The 3D figure will remind her that we all love her.

  • karan joshi says:

    I really didn’t know some of these things before which you have informed us through your helpful and informative article!! keep sharing awesome stuff.

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