Gift ideas for elderly woman

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Help!! Need gift ideas for elderly woman. I'm also on a budget of around £25-30

I'd do photos, either an old photo of her and family from years ago or current photos of nearest and dearest. We've done a cup with photo of her cat on and a cushion printed with a photo of all her grandchildren.

We've had to find something different this year so it's posh toiletries and bed socks.

That's a good idea, although she already has lots of photo things.

Hamper of food and drink she likes?

What would you give a younger woman? That.

Unless it's a bungee jump voucher or something!

She has everything already PP so she is extremely hard to buy for.

And tbh I'm shit at gift ideas for any age.

Voucher for afternoon tea for her and a friend.

Nice scarf and gloves.

China mugs.

By 'elderly', do you mean that she has limited mobility or some other age-related condition and the gift needs to be tailored to her needs?

Otherwise, why not buy her a present that suits her interests and personality, as you would for someone in her forties, fifties or sixties, rather than deciding that because she is over a certain age, she has to have a different type of present?

Well she's 80. Has everything She could ever want. So gift buying is difficult.

Night wear, dressing gown, Reed diffuser, scented drawer liners, candle, nice hand cream, bubble bath, shower gel etc, gloves, cashmere wrist warmers from turtle doves, nice biscuits, chocolates, silk scarves, photo frame. All things I’ve bought elderly female family members.

It's the 'stuff' factor, isn't it. I want fewer things at 50 than I did at 30, and my parents want fewer things again. Basically needs to be things that wear out or things they can eat/drink!
My mum likes good socks, nice chocolate, dad a good bottle of wine or can always use a Kindle voucher. If your friend is a wine drinker I'd go for a £30 bottle of wine as being substantially nicer than most people would buy for themselves. (Or maybe port as being Christmassy?)

An indoor plant in a nice plant holder / plant stand

She's not an indoor plant person, does like gardening though. And she isn't really a drinker.

Afternoon Tea voucher is always a winner!

My sister got me a hellebore from the RHS website last Christmas, really beautiful dark purple colour and flowered for months and obvious is about to re-flower soon 🙂

My mother is an elderly female. She wouldn't want most of the things that have been mentioned in this thread. She'd prefer something like the latest John le Carre or a good crime novel or (what she's recently mentioned needing) a warm gilet to wear while gardening.

She's elderly, that doesn't mean she has undergone a complete personality change, so that she wants things she would never have wanted ten or twenty years ago.

Sometimes, for elderly people whose own friends have perhaps died, or who can't get about so much any more, the best gift you can give them is your time. See if there's somewhere she would like to go, or something she'd like to do, and offer to go with her.

(I’m not elderly but do like the garden). Agree with others about avoiding “stuff”. RHS magazine subscription might be another idea

Ear rings. Something for an interest. (My mother was delighted with socking great tubes of oil paint - particularly Chrome white- until she died at 94, still halfway through the one I had given her two months previously). Aeropress coffee maker. A lovely throw-TKMaxx always have fantastic ones. A bouquet of flowers to be delivered on 23rd December ( Christmas Eve costs more. A couple of books and a box of chocolates.

How about a jigsaw puzzle? I know the elderly seem to like doing them, I wouldn't buy an older person a candle for safety reasons. Bedsocks, perhaps a box of chocs. One elderly lady I know was delighted to receive a festive apron!

We've generally done scarves, chocolates, beauty gifts like Eliabeth Arden and homemade biscuits/fudge

Personalised item. You can buy a personalised book with info in about the day the person was born includes cost of thongs, number 1 song, ect.
Handcream set.
Shawl or scarf
Food hamper - jam ones are always good
Nice bedsheets
Voucher for m&s, john lewis, debenhams ect
Does she knit or sew? A nice sewing/knitting basket
Nail varnish set
Gardening tools, gloves, wellies, ect
Fig tree/ apple tree for the garden
Scatter cushions (for sofa or bed)
Coat
Handbag or handbag organiser

Thinking possibly handcreams. She doesn't sew or knit.

My mother is 78, loves tickets to concerts and company to go to see the concert, cds of those artists, nice socks/ perennial hunt for warm cardigan, (she's on blood thinners and feels the cold). Nice thermals, gift voucher for the hairdresser--weekly 'set'. Voucher for lunch, she and my aunt go for lunch once a month, nice slippers, vouchers for next home - she loves decorating and there's always an imminent project! Didn't really like the tablet my sister bought her, loved the Sky upgrade another sister arranged. Loves flowers.

Just bought my dad a nice soft blanket from Next. He's always cold and it's so snuggly and comforting.

Amazon Echo Dot? My grandmother-in-law has one (her son bought it her and set it up). She's 95. But she gets lonely and she asks it the weather, the time and to tell jokes.

Wouldn't surprise me if there's a Black Friday deal on.

Just remembered my uncles have also bought my grandparents ons. Think they're mid 80s.

Depends how they are with tech I suppose. Both our grandparents have mobile phones, have used Facebook in the past etc. So Alexa isn't too foreign.