Have a senior family member, neighbor, or friend? Looking for a nice way to thank, award, or bless them? Check out these gift suggestions for seniors. These will ease their days, add excitement to their lives, or make them feel special and appreciated.

• Gift certificates for their favorite grocery store, deli, or pharmacy.
• An assortment of greeting cards for birthdays and anniversaries, as well as get-well and sympathy cards.
• Gift certificates for haircuts, manicures, dry cleaning, restaurant meals, theater tickets, videos and department stores.
• Prepaid long distance phone cards.
• Bus passes or coupons for senior transportation or taxis.
• Postcards or lined stationery and envelopes with a generous supply of stamps.
• A "paid in advance" certificate for ten lawn mowings or snow shovelings by a neighborhood youngster.
• A "certificate" for a service you can perform that is difficult for them-a thorough house cleaning, a month's laundry, a handyman visit for home safety inspection and minor repairs.
• An offer to rewrite their address book in larger, more legible print, or better yet, to put it on Rolodex cards so updating is almost effortless and much neater.
• A month of Sunday drives to church, or to the country, the museum or the park.
• A subscription to their favorite magazine or the daily newspaper.
• A basket of goodies assembled especially for them-cans of ham, tuna, chicken, hearty soups, chili and stew, instant coffee and tea bags, crackers, instant soup mixes.
• A selection of their treasured, tattered photos retouched and placed into a new album, with captions.
• Large print calendars with family birthdays, anniversaries, etc., marked and personalized with family photos
• Payment of utilities for a month or two can be sent directly to the utility-then let the recipients know they have "extra" money to spend as they wish.
• A cordless phone or answering machine or service
• Membership in a gym
• Anything they won't have to dust!