Shopping for your older parent doesn’t have to be a challenge this holiday season. Whether you’re looking for something practical, something comforting, or you want to surprise and delight, the Working Daughter Holiday Gift Guide simplifies your shopping. We’ve curated our favorites here in order to save you time while ensuring you buy something your gift recipients will truly appreciate.
Gifts for Older Parents
Digital Picture Frame
A thoughtful, heartfelt gift that brings joy. For parents living independently or far from family, a digital picture frame bridges the distance. It displays a continuous slideshow of memories, connecting family – even from afar. Pre-load the frame with family photos, special moments, or even short video clips. And you can add new pictures and videos anytime, anywhere.
Conversation Starters for Grandparents
Use these 200 questions as conversation starters to have deep, meaningful conversations that let grandparents share their heritage, life stories, and perspectives with their children and grandchildren. Create lifelong memories by sharing treasured family history and learn something new about your family with every use.
Family Recipe Cutting Board
- Engrave a Bamboo Cutting Board with a hand-written messages or recipes shared by you and your family.
Magnifying Glass
Great magnifier for older eyes. Help with fine print on mail, prescription bottles, menus in dimly lit restaurants – my Dad never dined without his!
Long Shoe Horn
This shoe horn wiith a long handle makes putting on shoes a breeze fwhether standing or sitting without bending over. A must-have for anyone with back pain, hip pain, arthritis, sciatica or other mobility problems.
Hummingbird Feeder
A wonderful gift for anyone who enjoys watching birds. These feeders transform any backyard, patio, or garden into a lively haven for hummingbirds, offering a daily dose of beauty and relaxation. This hummingbird feeders is low-maintenance and high-reward.
Large Print Memory Games
This book features 500 engaging puzzles designed to boost brainpower and provide hours of entertainment. It includes a variety of puzzles including word searches, mazes, quizzes, sudoku, math problems, and much more. Each section starts with easy puzzles to warm up your mind and progresses to harder ones that will challenge even the smartest senior.
Compression Socks
These compression socks are omfortable and supportive with a pressure rating of 20 to 30 millimeters of mercury (mmHg). We love the fun designs.
Automatic Card Shuffler and Dealer
Do’t let dexterity issues get in the way of bridge or poker. This automatic card shuffler and dealer keeps the game going!
Fidget Blanket
Fidget blankets, also known as sensory blankets, are particularly beneficial for people with dementia because they cater to their sensory and cognitive needs and they providing comfort and stimulation.
Jar Opener
Jar opener set for arthritic hands helps open any jar, can or bottle. Practical, convenient, saves time and strength, and puts no extra stress on fragile hand joint and ligaments!
Pickleball Set
For your active parents, gift them their own pickleball set so they can take part in America’s newest favorite pasttime.
Grandpad
The GrandPad is a specially designed tablet, created to make technology more accessible and enjoyable for older adults. It has large icons, easy navigation, and a private network that blocks spam and scams.
Weighted Blanket
Weighted blankets are designed to aid in sleep and reduce stress. And this one wins rave reviews.
Large Display Clock
Keep your parent oriented to day and time with this large display, digital clock. It auto dims at night and brightens up during the day.
Legacy Journal
Everyone wants to leave a Legacy. And now your parent can with this guided journal/photo album.
Amazon Echo
An Amazon Echo combines convenience, connectivity, and entertainment in a simple, voice-activated device. Here’s what makes it stand out: With voice commands, your parent can ask Alexa to play music, set reminders, make calls, or check the weather without navigating complicated menus. The Drop In feature and voice calling make it easy to stay in touch with family, reducing feelings of isolation and making communication easy.
Apple Watch
Apple Watches make a great gift because not only are they sleek, but they come with fall detection and other great health monitoring features for irregular heartbeats and blood monitoring.
Large Print Deck of Cards
This large print deck of cards designed for older eyes makes a great stocking stuffer.
Walker Drink Holder
This drink holder attaches to most walkers, rollators and wheelchairs. The unique design allows the cup holder to attach on a slanted tube keeping the cup holder straight and balanced.
Ticket Stub Diary
This handy journal is just the ticket for preserving and showing off tickets saved from sporting events, museum openings, rock concerts, and more. The roomy sleeves store tickets of all shapes and sizes, and lined margins provide space to (new art enclosed) jot down notes about the events. The acid-free pages will keep memorabilia in tip-top shape for years to come.
Stuffed Companion Pet
Joy for All Companion Pet cats look, feel, and sound like real cats. And just like live pets, studies show that these interactive companions can improve quality-of-life and overall well-being for aging family members. Enter codeWorkingDaughter20 at checkout.
Aquapaint
Paint water on the 8-1/2″ x 11″ surface and a picture will instantly appear. Watch it disappear in about 15 minutes . . . ready to start again. An easy-to-use activity for those living with dementia / Alzheimer’s. Comes in many different pictures. Styles vary. Enter WORKINGDAUGHTER10 to receive a site wide 10% discount.
RAZ Memory Cell Phone
An easy-to-use cell phone for people with memory loss, Dementia, Alzheimer’s or seniors who prefer a simple experience. Enter Coupon Code Q5JRM7MW for a 15% discount
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