Your loved one's dashboard has a small panel where suggestions from their Circle can appear. The Suggest feature is your side of that panel. Share a recipe you think she would like. An exercise video that is easy on the knees. A hobby that might fill a slow afternoon.
Done well, it is one of the kindest things you can do. Done badly, it is nagging in a new font. Here is the difference.
Where to find it
Go to Family & Friends → Suggest to my loved one from your family sidebar. You can also suggest any item from inside SeniorThrive by tapping Share with my loved one on a recipe, video, game, or article.
How to send a suggestion
Find the thing you want to share. A recipe, an exercise video, a hobby guide, a Circle event idea.
Tap Suggest to Mom (or whoever you are suggesting to).
Add a one-line personal note. "Saw this and thought of you." "This reminded me of the sweater you used to make."
Tap Send.
It lands on your loved one's dashboard as a small, friendly card. No alarm. No red dot. Just a note, from someone who loves them.
What happens next
Your loved one can:
Tap the suggestion to look at it.
Save it for later.
Mark it "tried." This is the part that feels good. You get a small note: "Mom tried the gardening article."
Ignore it. No notification to you. No guilt. They are allowed to not want something.
The unwritten rules
Do not suggest more than once a week. If the dashboard fills up with your suggestions, they stop being suggestions and start being a reading list. Less is more.
Never suggest anything medical. The place for "you should ask your doctor about this" is a phone call, not a panel. A medical suggestion delivered like a recipe feels cold.
Do not follow up on whether they did it. "Did you try the video yet?" is a fast way to ruin the feature. Let them open it when they are ready, or let it pass.
Share things you actually love. Not things you think are "good for them." A recipe you made last week. A book you could not put down. A video that genuinely helped your own back. Those land differently.
A few good examples
A recipe for apple crisp, with a note: "Remember the one you used to make? I found a version of it."
A chair yoga video, with a note: "I started doing this in the morning, it might be your kind of thing."
A hobby guide on watercolor, with a note: "You were so good at this in college, I saw this and thought of you."
The suggestion is just the wrapper. The real gift is that you were thinking of them.