13 Best Senior Living Conferences to Attend in 2025

With nearly 50% of leads for independent living coming from digital sources, it’s more important than ever to ensure your senior living CRM software meets your needs and you’re working with the latest industry technology.

This means you need to be engaged with the latest senior living trends and products, which are often on display at popular conferences across the county. Attending senior living conferences is key to advancing in the senior care industry while meeting with and learning from peers. 

Conferences allow professionals to network, learn the latest industry trends, see previews of helpful technology like AI in senior living, and glean insight from experts throughout the field. 

Discover the 13 best senior living conferences in 2025 that are worth attending.

1. Aline Innovation Summit

• Where: Nashville, Tennessee
• When: April 15 – 18, 2025
• Registration cost: Early-bird pricing until Jan. 15, 2025, $1,100; standard pricing $1,200
• Why attend: The Aline leadership team will share insights on the current trends and the latest technology solutions, including AI.
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The future of senior living is here, and you need to be ready for it. The Aline Innovation Summit is a blend of educational, professional, and networking sessions focused on the strategies and innovations shaping today’s senior living industry.

The conference offers several different tracks to help you personalize your experience:

• Data-driven leadership to help you optimize performance.
• Sales and marketing to uncover new strategies to maximize occupancy.
• Clinical to discover care improvements and community engagement.
• Operations and finance to find new ways to reduce cost and improve efficiency without sacrificing patient care.
• Post-acute to learn strategies and solutions specifically for post-acute care.

Participate in hands-on demos and workshops to discover how to maximize your Aline ROI. Collaborate and learn from industry thought leaders, potential partners, and solution experts and leave with a plan for your community.

2. Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference

• Where: Tampa, Florida
• When: May 19 – 21, 2025
• Registration cost: $1,049 for a full conference pass as someone in community/regional level management within a senior living community. 
• Why attend: Deep dive into the senior living industry’s pressing challenges and opportunities.
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The Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference centers on building connections with other professionals and suppliers, taking in others’ successes and insights from keynotes and seminars. 

This senior living conference focuses on the future to help those in decision-making positions throughout the industry. Here, attendees will learn about the latest policy developments, emerging trends, and what’s next to help them inform their processes and community decisions.

3. SMASH

• Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
• When: October 20 – 22, 2025
• Registration cost: TBD; registration opens in early 2025
• Why attend: Learn about driving revenue and occupancy growth and how to adapt in a competitive industry.
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SMASH is a senior care conference for marketing and sales leaders to connect and meet solution-based partners.

Want to know how to effectively market senior living? This conference is designed to be valuable to all professionals in marketing and sales, whether you’re new to the senior living community or an industry expert. 

At SMASH, you’ll participate in breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, and roundtables, all led by topical experts and authors from across the country.

By attending as a senior living professional, you’ll gain valuable insight from diverse voices and leave with actionable takeaways ready to implement in your community. 

4. Elevate: CALA’s Conference and Trade Show

• Where: Sacramento, California (spring) and Palm Springs, California (fall)
• When: June 2 – 4, 2025 (spring) and November 10 – 12, 2025 (fall)
• Registration cost for trade show exhibition:
  • Premier Partners: $0 (1 show)/$0 (2 shows)
  • Sustaining Partners: $1,020 (1 show)/$1,840 (2 shows)
  • Supporting Partners: $1,530 (1 show)/$2,760 (2 shows)
  • Industry Partners: $1,735 (1 show)/$3,130 (2 shows)
  • Non-Members: $2,040 (1 show)/$3,680 (2 shows)
• Why attend: State-focused networking.
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The California Assisted Living Association (CALA) hosts twice a year Elevate: CALA Conference and Trade Shows. Educational programming at the conference aims to showcase valuable insights, trends, best practices, and lessons to guide professionals to the future of the industry.

Exhibiting at the trade show encourages interaction with decision-makers, like CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and executive directors.

5. ReBUILD Conference by Senior Housing News

• Where: Dallas, Texas
• When: November 6 – 7, 2025
• Early registration cost: TBD; registration opens in 2025
• Why attend: Learn more about the trends and challenges in senior living housing development.
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ReBUILD focuses on the latest trends and challenges facing senior living development.

While networking at the conference, you’ll meet senior living community owners and operators, community builders and developers, senior living-focused architects and interior designers, technology owners, brokers, investors, and more. In your conversations and conference content, you’ll learn what’s next in senior housing.

6. National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Annual Meeting

• Where: San Diego, California
• When: March 5 – 7, 2025
• Early registration cost: Contact NIC for more information.
• Why attend: Learn about critical industry issues, innovative solutions, and integrated care models for the future.
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The NIC Annual Meeting brings together leaders who service senior living care as operators, investors, and care partners.

What makes this unique among other senior living conferences in 2025 is the lack of an exhibitor hall, allowing attendees to focus on solution-based networking. 

Discussions and takeaways from the conference will include the changing definition of health care, why the change is important, and how health care payors are looking for opportunities to prevent senior care revenue leakage.

Sessions will occur in two formats: main-stage presentations and innovation lab workshops.

7. Senior Housing News Sales & Marketing Conference

• Where: Bonita Springs, Florida
• When: February 18 – 19, 2025
• Registration cost: Executive connect $500; provider $900
• Why attend: Strategize with other professionals for the coming year while determining what worked last year.
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The Senior Housing News Sales and Marketing Conference is ideal for those responsible for driving occupancy results. This conference promotes interactivity with panel presentations and discussions featuring nationally renowned speakers.

If you’re interested in learning more about rejuvenating your senior living sales and marketing teams for the year with new strategy ideas, deployment steps, and overall inspiration, this is a must-attend conference.

8. Senior Living Innovation Forum

• Where: Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
• When: June 1 – 3, 2025
• Registration cost: No cost, but you must request an invitation.
• Why attend: Have honest conversations to shake up the status quo. 
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The Senior Living Innovation Forum challenges leaders to adopt innovative viewpoints and engage in honest conversations about topics, like effective medication management, to see how your senior care community can implement changes and streamline operations. 

This conference also promotes activities with breaks featuring excursions to keep you active while making new connections. Activities include horseback riding and group runs and hikes.

9. AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo

• Where: Dallas, Texas
• When: October 12 – 15, 2025
• Registration cost: TBD; registration opens in 2025
• Why attend: Participate in activities designed to build knowledge, develop connections, and celebrate achievements. 
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The AHCA/NCAL Convention and Expo is a premier event among assisted living conferences, bringing together professionals in long-term and post-acute care, assisted living providers, vendors, and affiliates. Key features of the conference include:

• Educational sessions
• Expo hall
• A dedicated National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) day
• Intensives on specific topics
• Rehab day with advanced training and networking opportunities
• Special events

More information about the 2025 Convention and Expo is still to come. 

10. American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) Annual Meeting

• Where: Phoenix, Arizona
• When: January 27 – 29, 2025
• Registration cost: Invitation included in ASHA membership.
• Why attend: Attendance is exclusive. 
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This conference is open only to members of ASHA at its executive board, advisory committee, and associate member levels. In addition to an annual meeting invitation, ASHA members receive insights from peers, access to proprietary research, and consumer education materials.

A key benefit of ASHA membership is receiving advocacy in Washington, D.C., through its Seniors Housing Political Action Committee to ensure the senior living community has a strong and unified voice on federal issues.

11. LeadingAge Annual Meeting

• Where: Boston, Massachusetts
• When: November 2 – 5, 2025
• Registration cost: TBD; registration opens in 2025
• Why attend: Sessions cover the entire aging services sector. 
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LeadAge’s Annual Meeting encourages industry-wide innovation to discover solutions for the future. Choose from over 150 of the conference’s educational sessions on relevant and timely topics and visit the industry’s only experiential expo to drive change in your senior living care organization.

You’ll also have the opportunity to network and build relationships with professionals across the entire aging services industry, including CEOs, directors, coordinators, nurses, care staff, and more.

12. Senior Living 100

• Where: Amelia Island, Florida
• When: March 23 – 25, 2025
• Registration cost: early-bird pricing $1,850; standard pricing $2,400
• Why attend: Provides insight to future-proof your organization. 
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Join an elite list of senior living operator executives at Senior Living 100 to learn new ways to drive success to your organization.

The conference focuses on strategic leadership, providing insights on topics like optimizing finances through senior living revenue cycle management. Attendees are also encouraged to build meaningful connections through collaboration and problem-solving among leaders at Senior Living 100. 

13. HEALTHTAC East & HEALTHTAC West

• Where: East at Fernandina Beach, Florida; West at Newport Beach, California
• When: East from March 9 – 11, 2025; West from August 3 – 5, 2025
• Registration cost: Attend by invitation
• Why attend: Focuses on all aspects of senior living. 
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HEALTHTAC East and West provide senior living professionals with events on each coast for convenience based on your primary location, allowing you to connect with other nearby industry professionals.

Both events focus on providing attendees with a productive experience encompassing all aspects of senior living. This includes independent living, assisted living, memory care communities, and skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.

Learn More About Aline at Senior Living Conferences

Senior living conferences offer a great opportunity to build your professional network and learn about the industry’s future. Look for Aline at the next senior living conference to learn more about our software solutions. 

Check out where Aline will be next on our Events Hub. We hope to see you there!