Event Overview:
Participate in an event that will spark ideas. Fuel growth. Build collaboration. And more than anything, ignite your future and the future of active aging.
Step away from the day-to-day at this year's International Council on Active Aging Conference. Connect with your colleagues and reinvigorate yourself - mind, body and spirit - with a more holistic learning and networking experience.
From preconference workshops to special events to general and regular sessions, delve into an educational program developed with our industry's needs and goals in mind. Topics target the varied roles, settings, client functional levels, and challenges found in active aging. One seminar stream, for example, focuses on discovering the future of such key influencers as technology, marketing, community design, older female consumers, and more. Included are "Open Space" sessions that'll allow you and other attendees to drive the discussion, share your knowledge and innovate solutions.
At the ICAA Conference 2018, you'll join a conference community that learns with and from each other. You'll have more opportunities and locations for networking—from informal mixing at the coffee bar to the event's "brain dating." Plus you'll access an expo of products and services targeted to active aging, featuring exhibitors committed to your success with the older adult. Investigate solutions in technology, equipment, services, transportation, dining, leasing and financing. All in an environment focused on healthy, active aging.
Highlights • new formats for learning • more robust educational programs • greater sense of community • improved networking opportunities • targeted trade show •
A platform to shape the industry
The ICAA Conference is your platform not only to focus on the future of the industry, but to engage in shaping it. Beyond what you'll gain by attending, there's what you'll be able to give.
Immerse yourself in an interactive design forum focused on products and services. By contributing real-world input in this Design Lab session, you'll help industry partners design effective products and services that address all functional levels and the future needs of your clients. Collaborate with colleagues to ensure our industry seizes opportunities and drives change. Share your knowledge and ideas to inspire others to reach new levels of understanding and improve quality of life for older adults. New milestones await.
Share in the excitement. Bring yourself. Bring your team. Enjoy an experience that reenergizes your passion and helps put emerging trends into action. Do more than glimpse the future of active aging. Help ignite it!
Attendee Information:
Six reasons to attend
- The presentations are always exceptional in quality and content
- The experience energizes and refreshes you with new purpose
- The knowledge you gain is a win for you and your company
- The networking opportunities lead to new ideas and resources
- The topics are relevant and meaty
- The continuing education units (CEUs) are offered by key providers.
Who will benefit from this experience?
- CEOs, presidents, vice presidents, owners
- Wellness directors, program directors, activities directors
- Executive directors, administrators, board members
- Sales and marketing personnel
- Developers and architects
- Resident life executives, resident services personnel
- Dining services directors, dining services staff
- Fitness instructors, personal trainers, health educators
- Social workers, chaplains
- Physicians, nutritionists/dietitians, therapists
- Researchers, professors
- Resident advisory councils
Industries represented at the ICAA Conference
- CCRCs/Life plan communities
- Independent living, assisted living, memory care
- Seniors centers, Area Agencies on Aging or cities/Parks and recreation
- Medical fitness, rehab, therapy providers and wellness center
- Health clubs/YMCAs/JCCs
- Universities
Exhibitor Information:
The Wellness Revolution - are you in?
Game-changer? Upheaval? Whatever you may call it, the Wellness Revolution is in full swing.
Greener buildings, organic food and even wearables that record biometric information such as heart rates and sleep patterns are part of a tsunami-sized shakeup that is having a profound impact on the fate of every business working with older adults. Just as most people have largely rejected smoking, consumers around the world are increasingly spurning things like chemical additives, sugar and poor-quality sleep - and embracing wellness to maintain and improve their health.
Demands for wellness-related products and services is multi-dimensional, spanning disciplines from architecture to healthcare, nutrition, mobility and more. In a survey conducted by the International Council on Active Aging® (ICAA), 90 percent of senior living executive respondents said wellness is a vital strategy for the growth of their business. Which is why it's no longer realistic to evaluate whatever product or service you're selling outside of a wellness context.
Since the ICAA began in 2001, we've devoted 100% of our efforts to helping older adults enjoy longer, healthier lives in proactive - rather than traditionally reactive - ways. Backing us is a body of evidence from a swelling number of sources pointing to the critical importance wellness plays in all aspects of our lives, including physical, mental and emotional.
In short, wellness is here to stay. Are you in?
About ICAA:
ICAA's mission is to promote Active Aging as a solution to improving the quality of life for older adults. Our efforts are directed at helping businesses excel in serving the 50+ population, and at helping that population serve itself.
Although we are neither a policymaker nor a lobby group, ICAA has been the prime architect of the Active Aging industry, a network spanning 10,000 organizations managing 40,000 locations in 37 countries that cater to the health and well-being of older adults. Through us, organizations that used to work alone now connect with each other in the common purpose of furthering the Active Aging movement: retirement communities with fitness clubs; government agencies with for-profit organizations; wellness professionals with university scholars.
We are committed to making positive changes in the way that older adults everywhere live and are included in society.
