/r/eldercare/

r/eldercare

16k members
r/eldercare is a subreddit with 16k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses elderly, walker, home care, caregiver, and easy chair, and they frequently recommend/review security camera, wine, and cell phone.
An emotional support community for people to ask questions and share stories about eldercare. Any legal or medical advice is anecdotal and unverified.

Popular Themes in r/eldercare

#1
Advice Requests
: "I stopped warning my mother about specific scams and taught her these six things instead"
27 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "My parents need help and I just want to walk away"
7 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Set up backup power at my mom's house after she sat through a 5 hour outage alone"
6 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "My Sister is Spending my 93 year old mom's Trust money..."
3 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Need your inputs on an idea"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/eldercare

#1

Elderly

9 posts
#2

Walker

1 post
#3

Home Care

1 post
#4

Caregiver

1 post
#5

Easy Chair

1 post
#6

Stress

1 post

Products Discussed in r/eldercare

#1
Blink Cameras
4.0 from 2 reviews
#2
Wyze Pan Cam
4.5 from 2 reviews
#3
Kasa Camera
4.0 from 1 review

Wine

4 reviews
#1
Non-alcoholic wines
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Gruvi
5.0 from 1 review
#3
Welsh’s
4.0 from 1 review

Cell Phone

3 reviews
#1
Consumer Cellular
5.0 from 1 review
#2
Apple
5.0 from 1 review
#3
Google
5.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/eldercare

Yearly
+6k members(63.0%)

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Last updated: August 9, 2026