How often do you ring your elderly parents?

Before CV it was a couple of time a week.
Since last March it is almost every day.

Both dh and I pretty much daily. Our parents aren’t ‘ancient’, they range from 65-75. But since lockdown we have had baby and live overseas, so the only contact they can have with him is FaceTime. They basically watch a baby trashing the house every day, and comment on dribble.
My mother has also been ill with Cancer treatment the last year, so been fully isolating and gets bored.
She now also facetimes her elderly mother daily ( who lives 5 min walk away), and she jokes she’s never spoken to her so much! As previously they would have walked and visited each other maybe once we week max.

I ring my mum every day and visit at least once a week (she's 30 miles away so it's not just a case of quickly popping in) and I go to see my dad every weekday.

I ring my parents on a Sunday too. Both mid 80's and live too far away to visit. Our Sunday phone calls are more historical as it was always cheaper to use the phone on a Sunday when we only had land lines.

I will sometimes call in the week just to make sure they are okay, but our longer chats are on a Sunday.

I phone my 87 year old Dad every evening.

My mum's 83 and she rings me every day at 2 pm. This has only been "a thing" since Covid. It's annoying but I try to accept it with good grace because she's lonely and isolated. She's a great conversationalist but I wish I didn't have to talk to her every day. I don't feel I can ask her not to ring so often without making her feel bad. Also I know that one day she won't be around anymore and I'll miss her terribly.

.My mum, mid-80s, I call or WhatsApp every morning and WhatsApp through the day. See her on average 4 times a week, more in good weather. She's alone and needs company .

PiL are retired, considerably younger, I don't think of them as elderly

At least once a day even if it's just a quick call to say hi :)

Mil is a perky 97 year old . She lives alone . 3 mornings a week a carer goes in . On a Friday she usually has a hairdresser appt . One day we take her shopping . One day we go for coffee . ( We are not in the UK)
The days that she has a carer or we go out we just ring in the evening just to check she is ok . Some days it’s morning and evening .
Mainly because my gran had a stroke and it was two days before the milkman raised the alarm . We were living abroad at the time .
I can’t bear the thought of her waiting if anything happens, altho she has a pendant alarm I am not sure she wears it a lot .

Yes, the isolation makes it difficult. I haven’t seen my parents for almost a year now. They have friends and activities they used to do, but all are stopped now. They still have each other, which is something.

My mum is 89 living alone. Before covid she had a great social life, afternoon dances, lunches out cinema with friends. I rang about twice a week in those halcion days and she rang in between if she had any family news to tell me.
These lockdown days? I ring every day about 4.o'clock and she rings if she has the slightest thing to tell me to break up her day. She still has loads of friends and will often be on the phone to them for over an hour every day. She is in a bubble with me and dh so she comes for lunch on Sundays and I go over once during the week with shopping ext.
She is a very independent lady generally but our area was in tier 3 then 4 before the general lockdown so she is definitely struggling a bit with the isolation now.

Email twice a week, actually ring only once every few weeks.

Jaysus, my parents live on the other side of town, just a 5 Minute drive & saw them several times a week at least pre Covid but they like to get their money's worth out of a call/zoom so it takes a minimum of 45 minutes & it's draining. I've been trying to get dc to call themselves as my work is so busy I can't keep up the happy for that long atm 😟

Widowed Mum in her 80s. Visit monthly and call daily, usually for 15/20 mins but sometimes just for 5 mins to check all ok.

Video call nearly everyday (I lived abroad for four years, so we got used to video calls being the norm rather than phone). She needs it right now. My dad is the most talkative of blokes, neither is my brother. And she obviously can't get out much right now. But, it is slightly exhausting. I miss being alone.

Once a week, maybe twice. They hate using the phone and refuse to use anything like face time, keeping them on the phone for longer than a minute or two is next to impossible.

I ring or FaceTime my parents once or twice a week for around an hour to catch up. DH phones his maybe once a month as they live much closer. My parents aren't elderly yet though!

My DM is 78, lives about a mile or so away and I speak to her once or twice a week. She's a widow and I do it out of a sense of duty more than anything. We aren't close as she's done some awful things in the past that I can't forgive her for.

An hour a night

Mine are in their mid-70s.
Pre covid we’d speak on the phone once a week, most weeks, but not every single week.
Since covid we zoom once a week, and WhatsApp each other a few times a week

My mum is 72 and lives alone since my dad died. I FaceTime her most nights.

Once a week.

My parents are nuts and relocated 100s miles to live round the corner from us, which is amazing. My DH gets on well with them and started doing their shopping during lockdown #1 (there is a click and collect near his work). My brother phones twice a week, DH sees them weekly and my mum finds excuses to drop stuff off at our house every week and chat on the driveway. I phone them when I want to talk to them, and vice versa. They have each other and speak to at least one of us every day. When one of them is bereaved I'll make sure to call myself every day but they are very healthy right now.