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The honorees of two senior living industry awards programs will be recognized at the Environments for Aging Conference, April 13-16, in Atlanta.

SAGE’s David A. Green Memorial Award

Omotayo Onanuga

The Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE) will present its 2024 David A. Green Memorial Award to two recipients:

• Omotayo Onanuga, graduate teaching assistant, PhD Student, at Kansas State University
• Stephen Parker, architect and behavioral health planner, at Stantec

The award is named after David Green, the founder of SAGE who was instrumental in advancing senior living design practices throughout his career.

Stephen Parker

Administered annually by SAGE, the award provides a first-time EFA-conference attendee with an Environments for Aging Conference Experience, including travel, lodging, EFA Conference registration and related expenses as well as networking opportunities with SAGE thought leaders.

Ageless Living Collaborative’s Senior Living Design Scholarship

Juliana Anderson

The winners of the Ageless Living Collaborative (ALC) Senior Living Design Scholarship have been announced. They are Juliana Anderson, a second-year Master of Interior Design student at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), and Jena Tolley, a senior undergraduate student at Winthrop University (Rock Hill, S.C.), majoring in interior design and minoring in visual communication.

Anderson earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental design in spring 2022. Her practicum topic centers around long-term care facilities in Manitoba, Canada, specifically focusing on creating enriching environments for residents with Alzheimer’s disease.

Anderson is gaining professional experience as an interior design intern at Stantec (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), where she is honing her skills and growing as a young interior designer. Her multifaceted endeavors reflect a comprehensive commitment to her personal and professional development.

Jena Tolley

Upon graduation Tolley plans to return home to Baltimore to work as a designer in the senior living and affordable housing studio at Hord Coplan Macht, a multidisciplinary firm offering architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and planning services.

She’s had two internships at HCM, in which she got to work on multiple professional senior living projects, including working on The Grandview in Bethesda, Md., for Erickson Senior Living. She’s also gained valuable senior living design experience through an ambitious undergraduate studio class project, which provided 256,600 square feet of independent living, assisted living, skilled care, and amenity spaces.

Winners of both programs will be celebrated at the EFA Conference on Monday, April 15, at 2:30 p.m., followed by a keynote presentation by Emily Esfahani Smith, journalist and author of “The Power of Meaning.” For more information on the 2024 EFA Conference, visit environmentsforaging.com.