Christina Candido Morelli

With over a decade of experience in senior living, Christina had a somewhat unconventional start to her career. While pursuing a medical degree, it was apparent that she wanted to help people in a different way. In early 2012, she explored her innate pull to the senior community as she lived and volunteered in a dementia care facility in Northern Italy. It was there where she realized what can only be described as a true calling.

Upon her return to New Jersey, Christina earned her Master’s Degree in psychological counseling with a focus on geriatrics and family counseling from Monmouth University, graduating at the top of her class. She then went back to Italy for three months to volunteer again with those living with dementia, conducting independent research and starting a blog in the process.

Christina began her career stateside first in senior living sales, acting as a resource for prospective residents and helping them to move into her community. She quickly transitioned to operations, working as Executive Director for several years in Bergen, Morris, and Monmouth counties while also becoming a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Certified Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia Care Trainer. Christina managed to continue her travels and volunteer experiences, even developing a Caring for the Caregivers program over the course of three years in the Philippines and visiting the first ever Dementia Village in the Netherlands.

Christina brought with her varied experience, diverse perspectives, immense compassion, and unwavering dedication to her role as Executive Director. With a strong moral compass and each resident’s best interest at heart, her work in the senior living field has been invaluable. To say it’s been fulfilling for her would be an understatement. After welcoming two children, Leo in 2021 and Luca in 2022, she’s watched with immense pride and emotion as her boys have taken to countless “bonus grandparents”. They are all family to her, a testament to how deeply Christina cares for the elders she is fortunate enough to serve, learn from, and advocate for.