It can be challenging to buy a gift for your senior family members or friends who have visual impairment. You want gifts to be useful and make your loved one’s life easier.
This list contains 8 useful products and devices that would make great gifts for visually impaired individuals.
This ultra-bright page magnifier with 24 anti-glare dimmable LEDs is one of the best gifts for visually impaired individuals. It is ideal for seniors with weak hands as it is ultra-light.
Other features include:
Reduces Eye Strain
It provides an evenly lit viewing area and adequate magnification with 24 SMD LED lights, covered with an anti-glare reflector.
Dimmable SMD LEDs
You can control the brightness with a dimmable switch. The lights are designed to last 100,000+ hours. It has 3 lighting modes (cold, warm, and mixed).
Minimal Arm Fatigue
The unit only weighs 4 ounces which is ultra-lightweight when compared with other magnifiers. Easy to hold and ideal for long reading sessions.
This magnifier has a good lens area and great lighting for reading. It is a great tool for book lovers with visual impairment as it is perfect for reading a book page when you hold it vertically.
Magnifying glasses with dual LEDs are ideal for visually impaired individuals who do not want to hold a magnifier.
Seniors can use Zoom Vision’s glasses just like regular glasses to read newspapers and books or even thread a needle.
The features include:
Comfortable
It comes with a soft silicone nose pad that does not slip and sits comfortably on the nose.
Use with Regular Glasses
Zoom vision glasses can be worn over regular reading glasses and contact lenses.
Great Gift Packing
The set comes with i) zoom vision glasses with LED lights ii) zoom vision classic iii) a pair of aviator sunglasses iv) 2 carrying pouches and batteries.
Multiple products in one package make great gifts for individuals who prefer glasses over holding a magnifier in their hand.
Talking watches are ideal gifts for visually impaired seniors. This watch by Cirbic brings many useful features for blind and low-vision users.
Works Out of the Box
It comes with pre-installed batteries and is ready to use, out of the box.
Loud Voice
Announces time and date in a loud North American voice. One tap on the button gives time in a clear voice, tap again for the day and date announcements
Easy to Set
One-button setup with easy-to-follow audio instructions to set time, date, and alarm.
This watch has excellent user feedback, ratings, and reviews from the senior community.
This clock comes with a large display of time, date, and day of the week. An easy user interface with clear time in big numbers makes this clock a useful gift for older adults.
Other features include:
Alarms and Reminders
The clock comes with multi-function alarms (up to 5 times a day) with the option to set a reminder to take medications on time.
Absolute Clarity
The 8-inch high resolution display clearly spells out time, day of the week, month and date in clear letters with no confusing abbreviations.
This clock is a nice gift for seniors with vision impairment and dementia issues. The users report the best experience using it for their medication reminder and keep track of the time.
This product combines a floor lamp and magnifier making one of the best gifts for visually impaired adults and seniors. It is very easy to move around because of the flexible gooseneck and older adults can use it for several different purposes.
Flexible Gooseneck Bend
The flexible 17-inch gooseneck bend points the magnifier and lights where you need it. Both hands are free to read a book. The glass lens can be adjusted up and down and in all other directions.
Multiple Uses
Seniors can use this lamp for multiple purposes, to work at any angle. It is suitable for repairing electronics, painting, jewelry, puzzles, and more
Quality Lens and LEDs
The lens is genuine diopter glass, better than acrylic/plastic lens. It is heat-resistant and scratch-resistant. The 9W, 540 lumens LEDs provide uniform light.
This lamp is highly praised by seniors with vision impairment as they love to move its flexible neck around easily, without moving the base stand.
This simple classic design by Home Intuition is very popular among older adults with vision impairment.
Its key features include:
Simple Design
The phone design is what seniors had growing up with large easy-to-see numbers. It has a dedicated button to call 911.
Hearing Impaired Support
The phone handset comes with a receiver volume control switch that complies with FCC requirements. It has a loud voice to support hearing-impaired seniors
Easy to Use
The telephone comes with a 9-foot chord to give you a wide range of movement. It comes ready to use out of the box. It is equipped with a bell ringer so you do not miss any calls.
Large buttons support visually impaired seniors and loud voice support for the hearing impaired make it an ideal gift for elderly loved ones.
Older adults with vision impairment have problems using TV remotes with too many small buttons. You can gift them an easy-to-use universal TV remote with big buttons.
The flipper remote is a senior-friendly remote with big buttons that perform 3 important functions: on/off buttons, channel up and down buttons, and volume up and down buttons. The remote eliminates all unnecessary buttons that seniors do not use.
- Flipper is the best-selling big-button remote
- The remote has multiple uses. You can use it for TV and cable, satellite, or a DTV box.
- You can customize up to 25 favorite channels to access them without going through all other channels that you do not watch.
This universal remote has large size minimum buttons that make it easy for the elderly to change channel or volume without looking at the remote.
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Alexa devices such as the Amazon Echo Show make great gifts for visually impaired seniors. Amazon released an advert showing how Amazon Echo can make life easier for visually impaired individuals.
Some of the things low-vision seniors can do with Amazon Echo include:
- Find out the date and time, just by asking Alexa
- Setting alarms and reminders
- Getting weather updates
- Making To Do lists
- Getting the latest news
- Controlling lights, heating, and more
- Finding cooking recipes
- Setting timers
- Listening to the radio, podcasts, and more
- Audio and video calls to loved ones
The possibilities are endless for low-vision elderly to make their lives easier by having an Alexa device. They can play voice-controlled games such as puzzles, trivia, and more on Alexa devices.
Alexa can help keep visually impaired users entertained, informed, and updated and is a helpful device for dementia patients.
Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tips to Pick The Perfect Gift for Visually Impaired Seniors
Useful Product
The most important thing is to choose a gift for your loved ones that is both useful and wanted by them.
Gift Item That Solves a Problem
You can talk to your elderly parents or older adults about their struggle and find a product that solves those problems for them. All of the above products solve a problem
Know What They Already Have
It can help to know what products they already have and use. You can gift them a better and newer version of those products or buy them something they do not already have.
A Gift That Is Easy to Use
Buy something for your elderly parents that is easy to use for low-vision individuals. Amazon Echo Show is a great example that works on voice commands and brings the visually impaired all the updates, information, and entertainment without any visual input.
Know Their Interests
Big button remote makes a good gift for the elderly who like watching TV in their free time and magnifiers are great tools for book and newspaper readers. Know your loved one’s interest to see what suits them best.
Let’s Have a Conversation:
What do you think makes a good gift for a person with visual impairment? Have you bought something appropriate for a loved one? Have you received such a gift yourself?
