Caregivers and residents of Presbyterian SeniorCare’s Woodside Place in Oakmont listen as museum volunteer Martha Malinzak discusses a piece of art at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Shelby Moore looks at a print with her mother, Vivian Moore, during a tour Thursday at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The residents of Presbyterian SeniorCare’s Woodside Place in Oakmont answered questions about several pieces of artwork.

Residents of Presbyterian SeniorCare’s Woodside Place in Oakmont spend several minutes discussing a piece of artwork during the tour as part of the “In the Moment” program at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Marsha Goss looks at a small print of Still Life with Brioche by Edouard Manet with Kara Berringer, art therapist at Presbyterian SeniorCare’s Woodside Place. Goss and other residents of Woodside in Oakmont took a tour Thursday at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Cathy Glumac, client services supervisor with Home Instead Senior Care in Bethel Park, is encouraging families and caregivers to create a memory box for loved ones or patients who are suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Cathy Glumac, client services supervisor with Home Instead Senior Care in Bethel Park, shows a memory box created in memory of a client who has died.

Anna Snatchko plants her bare feet in the grass outside her home at the Burgettstown Apartments for the Elderly. It’s the first time in years that Anna has gone barefoot in the grass.

Ray Mikuta, 75, pets Sophie, a boxer/beagle puppy, at Southminster Place in Washington earlier this year.

Sophie, a box-beagle puppy, snoozes beside Ray Mikuta, 75, at Southminster Place in Washington earlier this year.

Helen Jean Kelley, 87, cuddles with Sophie, a boxer/beagle puppy, at Southminster Place in Washington earlier this year.

Gina Iuliucci, activities coordinator at Woodside, the Alzheimer’s unit at Southminister Place in Presbyterian SeniorCare, Washington, dances and shakes her maracas with Jean Stewart, left, Esther Davidson, Beverly Miller and Helen Bonar.

Dan Urbanik changes CDs while Washington County Health Center residents wait for the next song.

Catherine Oberman, left, dances with Marsha Dykins, an activity aide at the Washington County Health Center.

Marie Eckels loves to sing and dance to the music from her wheelchair as Dan Urbanik guides her at the Washington County Health Center.

Gina Iuliucci, center, activities coordinator, plays the guitar and sings along with Woodside residents, from left, Beverly Miller, Helen Bonar, Colleen Sheldon and Anna Cowan.

Gina Iuliucci, left, activities coordinator at Woodside, the Alzheimer’s unit at Southminister Place in Presbyterian SeniorCare, Washington, sings to Anna Cowan, right, as Colleen Sheldon watches.

Anna Cowan flashes a rare smile as Gina Gina Iuliucci, Activities Coordinator for Woodside at the Presbyterian Senior Care can make the seniors smile and clap with singing and dancing to melodies from their earlier days.

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Jim McNutt/Observer-Reporter San Rice, left, get help from recreatioinal staff member, Mary Jo Bongiovanni, and artist Julianne Eisel as Tom Hughes waits for assistance as well during art class at the facility Thursday. Seniors in Southmont, part of Presbyterian Senior Care receive art classes once a month.

Jim McNutt/Observer-Reporter Seniors at Southmont part of Presbyterian Senior Care participate in monthly art classes on Thursday.

Gina Iuliucci, left, activities coordinator/MTBC (music therapist) at Southminster Place of Presbyterian SeniorCare, sings to Anna Cowan, right, as Colleen Sheldon watches.

Rena Tatka, director of activities and Alzheimer’s program specialist at Southmont of Presbyterian SeniorCare in Washington, works with Francis Mele on an art project.

Glue is applied to paper leaves as part of an art project at Southmont of Presbyterian SeniorCare in Washington.