You Asked, We Answered: 19 Gift Ideas for Older Adults
In this edition of The Gift, we’re answering your questions about the best gifts for older adults.
It’s been a full year since we first launched this newsletter — 52 weeks of (hopefully!) surprising and delighting you with gifts galore. And a full year since we “opened the lines,” so to speak, to help solve your biggest gifting conundrums.
Over 2,000 of you have written to us seeking advice — and our experts have handpicked hundreds of gifts for your nearest and dearest. We’ve recommend everything from the best face masks for a skin care-loving dad; to what will make a middle school-bound younger sister feel cool; to what one reader should gift themselves, after their home burned in a California wildfire.
But far and away one of the most common questions we receive is some variation of this: What can I give to an aging loved one? You want to know how to make them feel seen and celebrated — even when they may need less, not more, things for their downsized home, or have mobility issues, or are unable to jump into their once-favorite hobbies with the same vigor.
As we head into the holiday season, we tapped our gifts experts to answer a few of your questions around gifts for older loved ones. We hope these help. And please, keep the questions coming.
