Gift Ideas
Gift Ideas for someone with Alzheimer's Disease
- Visits: Make regular visits to the family with a person with Alzheimer's disease, not just during special events or holiday season.
- Hugs: People with Alzheimer's disease miss being touched. Be generous with hugs - for the caregiver also.
- Music: Tapes, music boxes
- Books and magazines: with lots of colorful pictures and old familiar scenes.
- Photo albums: Enlarged pictures of early days.
- Movies: Videos/CDs of 40's through 80's.
- Food: Fresh fruit, cookies, ice cream, frozen meals or home cooked meals that can be frozen and used later.
- Clothes: Comfortable sweaters, "warm-up" suits, jackets with Velcro fastening.
- Grooming products: skin lotion, hair products, after shave. Find out favorite fragrances.
- Gift certificates: for beautician, pedicurist, or barber, favorite restaurant, house cleaning service, cleaners, to a play or movie for the caregiver.
- Respite: Offer respite to caregiver.
- Assist with errands: Offer to do grocery shopping, post office.
- Night Light
- Electric Razor
- Talking watch or clock
Edited from the Caregiver Newsletter of the
Duke Family Support Program, Fall, 1993.
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