SENIOR LIVING LEADERS UNDER 40
NIHAL SATYADEV CEO & Co-Founder The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s Age: 22
NIHAL SATYADEV wants to see more young people get involved in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, and he’s working hard to make that happen. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s (YMAA), which provides high school and college students with opportunities to volunteer, research, and advocate. In the last 18 months, YMAA has spread to 30 colleges and high schools, engaged close to 500 students, provided over 2000 volunteer service hours, and raised $10,000 for research scholarships. As a member of the Alzheimer’s Association’s public policy team in 2014, Satyadev met a fellow
team member whose life had been uprooted by the disease. Moved by the man’s story, Satyadev attend- ed the Alzheimer’s Association’s national policy conference the following spring. He was disappointed to find few young people at the conference. When he realized there was no national organization to inspire students to enter the fields of Alzheimer’s and aging, Satyadev started YMAA to fill that gap. Satyadev also is an avid researcher of neurodegenerative diseases. He is currently assessing a cor- relation between Alzheimer’s disease and periodontal disease.
RADHIKA SINGH is a role model for senior living staff who aspire to advance their careers within the indus- try. Within a span of six years she utilized her education and work ethic to advance from part-time dining room server to executive director of Belmont Village Sunnyvale in Sunnyvale, California. She began her career in 2008 as a server at Belmont Village while she was a college student. A year later, Singh gradu- ated from college with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Science. She continued to work at Belmont Village and was promoted to dining room supervisor and then activities program coordinator. Meanwhile, she earned a master’s degree in public administration with a health policy emphasis and
joined Belmont’s Executive Director in Training program. In 2014, Singh was promoted to assistant executive director and later that year moved into her current role as executive director. She is known throughout the company as an innovator and has developed and improved programs for care of resi- dents with dementia and other cognitive challenges. Singh continues to learn and grow as executive director. Last year she received a Certificate of
Completion from the Argentum Executive Director Leadership Institute and completed the Senior Living Executive Course at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology.
RADHIKA SINGH Executive Director Belmont Village Sunnyvale Age: 30
ANDREW SMITH Director of Strategy and Innovation Brookdale
ANDREW SMITH, director of strategy and innovation at Brookdale, has led multiple outstanding in- novation initiatives to address the needs of Brookdale residents and their families. These include piloting a Lyft ride-sharing model that allows Brookdale residents to request a Lyft ride without using a smartphone; the Entrepreneur in Residence program, which invites entrepreneurs to live in a Brook- dale community for five days to design products with seniors; and the award-winning Rewiring Aging study, a first-of-its-kind study conducted in partnership with the Stanford Center on Longevity. The study measured the impact of technology on people over the age of 80. Its findings were published in the “Journal of Gerontology.” Smith’s innovations extend to Brookdale’s employee training programs. Early in his career, he
researched, designed, and built the company’s first scenario-based training program for its clinical assessment system. He also played a critical role in developing Brookdale’s labor management plat- form, Service Alignment, to ensure the right service is delivered to the right resident at the right time by the right associate. A tireless promoter of senior living, Smith is a regular speaker at industry events, writes blog posts
for Brookdale and Aging 2.0, hosts interns from his alma mater, Vanderbilt University, and regularly speaks to classes of students at Vanderbilt to promote working in the senior living industry.
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