The 2025 Environments for Aging Conference + Expo, to be held April 26-29 in Lexington, Ky., will feature two keynote sessions.
On Sunday, April 27, author and urbanist Charles Montgomery will kick off the conference sessions as the keynote speaker.
Montgomery is the founder of Happy Cities, an urban planning, design, and consulting firm (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), and author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, which examines the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness.
During his career, Montgomery has collaborated with the World Health Organization and the American Society of Landscape Architects (Washington, D.C.) to create experiments and design methods that help participants alter their relationships with their cities and with each other.
A panel discussion on the “State of Senior Living Design” will serve as the keynote session on Monday, April 28. Moderated by Environments for Aging Brand Leader Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, the panel will feature speakers Jeffrey Anderzhon, principal of senior living master planning firm Crepidoma Consulting, LLC; Lucy Boxrud, president of management and consulting firm Elysian Senior Homes; and Amy Carpenter, a free-agent architect with more than 30 years of experience on senior living projects.
The keynote panel discussion will dive into how the current political and economic climate is having an impact on construction as well as the senior living industry in general. Other topics will include ways in which the professional design landscape is shifting, what’s driving capital investment strategies, and how evolving consumer demands will shape the surge of new projects on the horizon.
For more information on the 2025 EFA Conference + Expo and to register, visit environmentsforaging.com.
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