Elderly patients and those exhibiting mild dementia who live in assisted living environments often feel excluded by the outside world. Such isolation brings on the deterioration of mental and creative capacities. It has long been observed that engaging in the arts stimulates natural connections, upregulates happiness, and enables the elderly to remain active in the process of creation. Art Buddies create art in a very special way, through one-on-one sessions in which each resident, collaborates with us on the artistic details and creative messaging he or she would like to see in their paintings. The young artist then takes that instruction and, with the physical help of the resident, creates the watercolor, oil, or acrylic painting that their art buddy envisions. Together we create the scene on the canvas as the resident guides one of our team artists in the desired palette and images. By the end, of an ArtsBuddies session, each senior resident had an original painting!