For senior living, assisted living and memory care

Thanksgiving ecards for senior living communities

Thanksgiving is about family. Send residents' families and your partners a thank-you with your community's name on it. These Thanksgiving ecards for senior living communities are short animated cards with your logo, colors and words, sent by email to families, referral partners, volunteers and your team, and you see the finished card before you pay.

Make this yours Watch the card

No account until you pay. Your executive director approves it by link. One price for your whole list.

Since 2003

Customers whose cards we built

"Each year, both the staff and the recipients have loved their digital cards."

Daley And Associates, LLC

"...our supporters and partners look forward to seeing each year."

Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service

"...an instant hit with all of the recipients."

Singerman, Mills, Desberg & Kauntz Co., LPA

Made for a senior living community

A Thanksgiving card that looks like your community

Type your community's website address and the card takes your brand colors and finds your logo. Or drop in a logo file and the colors are read from it. Then every line of text is yours: the greeting, the message, and whether it comes from the community, your team or your executive director.

The result is a senior living Thanksgiving card that plays like a short film: your logo, your colors and your words, with music, full screen on a phone. On a Photo & Text design you can add your own photos of the community. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to families is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. The demo on this page was set up for a senior living community; press Make this yours and the studio opens it, ready for your own logo.

Your community's brand

Type your community's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo.

Your own photos

On a Photo & Text design, your dining room, your garden and your autumn are yours to show.

Approved before it goes out

A watermarked approval link your executive director or regional office watches on a phone, with no account.

Warm, in your own words

Every word is yours, signed from the community, your team or your executive director.

Ends with your links

Your website, your events calendar or a page to book a tour, shown when the card finishes.

See who watched

The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on the families you send it to.

Three steps

How it works

1

Brand it

Pick a Thanksgiving design, type your community's website and add your own photos. Your logo and colors come in.

2

Approve it

Change the words, watch the finished card play, and send your executive director the approval link.

3

Send it

Pick your list size and buy. We send it, or you send it from your own email platform.

The catalog

Thanksgiving ecard designs for your community

The demo above is one of 25 Thanksgiving designs, and every one of them takes your community's logo, colors and words. Press Preview to watch one, or Customize to open it in the studio.

What to write in a Thanksgiving message to residents' families

Keep it short and warm. A good senior living Thanksgiving message thanks families for their trust, says what you are grateful for, and comes from people they know. It reads best without a rate or an offer in it. Start from one of these and change any word.

To residents' families

"This Thanksgiving, we are grateful for our residents, their families and our caring team."

"Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at [community name]. Thank you for being part of our family."

"Thank you for trusting us with the people you love. We are grateful for you this Thanksgiving."

To referral partners

"Thank you for the families you send our way and the care you show them. Happy Thanksgiving from [community name]."

To volunteers

"Your visits, your time and your kindness mean so much to our residents. Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving."

To everyone

"Wishing you a warm Thanksgiving with the people you love."

Need more ideas for a retirement community Thanksgiving card? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business.

Ecard or printed card for your community?

Some communities still mail printed cards to a few referral partners. An assisted living Thanksgiving card sent by email reaches every family on your list, near or far, at one price.

At a glance
Printed card
Thanksgiving ecard
Best for
A few referral partners and long-time friends
Residents' families, referral partners, volunteers and your team
Reaches
One mailing address per family
Every family member with an email, wherever they live
Cost
Printing, postage and envelopes for each card
One price for the whole list
Your community
One printed photo
Your own photos, animated, with music
Afterwards
No way to know who saw it
See how many people watched, and a link to book a tour
An older couple passing a platter at a Thanksgiving table with their family

Why Thanksgiving works for senior living

Thanksgiving is the holiday about family and gratitude, which is what a senior living community is about every day. A card arrives before the December rush, when inboxes are quieter and a thank-you reads as a thank-you. It carries no faith, only gratitude, so it suits every family on the list. Many communities send a Thanksgiving thank-you and a holiday card in December; see the holiday designs.

Who should get your community's Thanksgiving card

  • Residents' families: adult children, grandchildren and the relatives who visit and call.
  • Referral partners: hospital discharge planners, physicians, placement advisors and home care agencies.
  • Volunteers and the community groups who visit.
  • Your staff: caregivers, nurses, the kitchen, housekeeping and the front desk.

A card holds one message, so many communities make two: one to families, one to referral partners or your own team. Copy the first card, change the words, and both live in the same account.

A caregiver pouring tea for an older woman in a bright, homey room

Approved by your executive director before you pay

A community's card usually needs a yes from the executive director, a regional office or the brand team. Press Send for approval and pass on the link. It shows the real, finished card with a watermark, has nothing to download, and needs no account, so anyone who signs off can watch it on a phone between rounds.

When the card is approved, answer one question at checkout and the clean card is made in about one to two minutes. Nothing is bought until someone says yes.

Keep the card a greeting

A Thanksgiving card carries one greeting for everyone on your list, so nothing about any resident's health or care belongs on it. Your community decides who receives it, which photos it shows and every word it says. If you add photos of residents, use the ones your community already has permission to share, and if you are unsure, check with whoever looks after privacy at your community before you send.

An older woman in a garden laughing during a video call on her phone

For families who cannot be there

Many families live far from the community, and some cannot travel for the holiday. A card in their inbox, with the community's name on it, tells them their mother or father is among people who care. It plays full screen on a phone, so a family member can watch it anywhere, and share it with the rest of the family.

For families of residents in memory care, the day can be a hard one. A calm, kind message usually lands better than a loud one.

Your family list stays in your hands

There are two ways to send, at the same price.

  • Send it yourself. We design the email; you send it from Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Outlook or another provider. Your family list never leaves your own system.
  • We send it. Import your list and every address is checked before the send. Unsubscribes are handled for you, permanently, and you get a report afterward.

Either way, the email is designed and tested to render as widely as possible, and the card's own page sets no cookies on the families you send it to and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.

An older couple walking along a path of fallen leaves under autumn trees

When to send a senior living Thanksgiving card

US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, 2026. Send it the week before, Monday to Wednesday, when families are making their holiday plans and reading their email. If we send it, you can schedule it ahead of time.

Want families to have somewhere to go next? Add your events calendar, your visiting hours or a page to book a tour as the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes. The card's page stays live after you send it, and another send extends it.

How many people will this card reach?

People you send to Price (USD)
0 to 500 people $99
501 to 1,000 people $249
1,001 to 2,500 people $399
2,501 to 5,000 people $599
5,001 to 10,000 people $899
10,001 to 20,000 people $1,499
20,001 to 30,000 people $2,099
30,001 to 40,000 people $2,699
40,001 to 50,000 people $3,299
50,000+ people Get a quote

Prices in US dollars. One purchase per card. There is no subscription and nothing to renew.

Start your card, pay when it's finished

Included at every size

  • Your card, finished and watermark-free
  • Its own web page, live for 60 days
  • The video, to download
  • An email designed to carry it
  • Sending by us, or a ready-made email for your own provider
  • Delivery reports when we send it

Questions senior living communities ask

US Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26. The week before is a good time.
Two or three sentences: thanks for their trust, what you are grateful for, and who it is from. Sample lines for families, referral partners and volunteers are on this page.
Yes, on a Photo & Text design. Drop your photos onto the slots and they are framed for you.
Yes. Add it to the card's ending links, the row of links shown when the card finishes.
Yes. Send the preview link; they watch the real card, watermarked, with no account.
Anything about a resident's health or care. A Thanksgiving card is one greeting for everyone on the list, and your community decides every word and photo on it.
Residents' families, referral partners, volunteers and your staff. Many communities make a second card for referral partners or the team.
If you send it yourself, yes: we design the email and you send it from your own provider, so the list never leaves your system. If we send it, you import the list and every address is checked before the send.
Your choice: we send it to your list, or you send it from your own email platform with a ready-made email.
Yes. When the card finishes, it shows a row of links you choose: your website, other pages of yours, and your social accounts.
60 days from the later of your purchase and your last send, and another send extends it.

All questions

Your community's Thanksgiving card, approved before you pay

Start from the demo, or pick any Thanksgiving design.

Make this yours Start your Thanksgiving card

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