We get mom things like new house slippers, housecoats, nightgowns, warm sweaters and cardigans, fuzzy blankets, reading glasses, magnifying glasses, English teas and cookies (but gotta watch the diabetes), the occasional picture and mens undershirts (the ones commonly called wifebeaters) but these we slip her surreptitiously. She took to wearing dads when he died and wore them to rags. Now we replace them on the sly and, fortunately or unfortunately depending on your point of view, her dementia keeps her from noticing but it makes her happy to think she still has a part of him with her.
We have to be careful with the printed word which is terrible for someone who has enjoyed reading her entire life; her dementia leads her into all kinds of fantasies (more like nightmares) and paranoia’s.