It's natural for you to want to try to lift your elders' moods, for their sake as well as your own. Sometimes you'll succeed, sometimes you'll fail, but trying rarely hurts.
Me for example, I have worked this frame with some senior citizen in my area. After it was done I took a picture of one of them, worked on the picture by adding different icons for fun, thinking she might laugh, but it was the opposite. She wasn't really pleased, as I have omitted she might have suffered from physical and emotional pain. When I've realised, I have worked another picture, as the one you can see above, and she was really pleased and smiled to me. Moreover, she was joking telling me "I forgive you for the other one (lol)"... She was so sweet and I was so happy seeing her smile shining on her cute face again...
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
Arthur Rubinstein
Have a nice day, for I just have it! (lol)