Kathleen Forseyth listens to music on an iPod at the Greenridge Senior Care facility in El Sobrante, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. Forseyth felt somewhat lonely and isolated and was looking for something to keep her mind occupied. Her love of music made her a perfect candidate for the Music Awakenings iPod Compassion Project. The project is part of LITA, a Contra Costa agency that brings music to disabled seniors living in filled nursing facilities. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)

To East Bay senior, compassion sounds a lot like Eric Clapton, Adele

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Bay Area News Group

Kathleen Forsythe is the resident music expert at Greenridge Senior Care center in El Sobrante.

“I listen to Eric Clapton, Boz Scaggs and a little bit of Maroon 5,” she says with a smile that lights up the room. “I like pop music — like Adele.”

But the 65-year-old El Sobrante native, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, doesn’t just listen to music. She lives it. She likes to talk about it with the staff at the center and share her musical discoveries.

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