How about donating money to a Senior Citizens organization. We did that last Christmas. They not only provide meals, but at Christmas, they provide baskets with needy items and often don’t have the money for everyone to get the small gifts. Rarely to giving families think of the older folks living alone.
Our office donates items (from a wish list the home provides) to a senior citizen’s home in which the residents do not have money and many have no family or visitors. Usually the items requested are very simple things like socks, sweatshirts and pants, slippers, hats, and gloves.