2027 Summit: Planting Possibility: Innovative Approaches to Healthy Aging
Join us for a gathering of experts, leaders, volunteers, researchers, and professionals to learn, collaborate, and celebrate advances in healthy aging.
Coming Soon! Tentative schedule:
Tom Guetzke – Growing Happiness: The five seeds for thriving at work and in life – What if your happiest years are still ahead of you? In this uplifting and entertaining keynote, Hall of Fame Speaker and The Happologist, Tom Guetzke, shares the science-backed habits that help people increase happiness, strengthen relationships, improve well-being, and find greater purpose at any age. Through humor, inspiring stories, and practical strategies, you’ll discover the 5 Happy Habits that can help you embrace life’s opportunities, navigate challenges with resilience, and create more joy in your everyday life. Because growing older isn’t about counting the years—it’s about making the years count. Get ready to laugh, learn, and leave with simple tools to help make your next chapter your best chapter.
Laura Goral – Cultivating Purpose: Awaken Your Why – Description coming soon.
Panel – Planting Possibilities through Partnerships – Renee Foy, Racine County Public Health Division; Amanda Tabin, Aspirus Health; Deb Hager, community member; TBD, Menomonee Falls Fire Department Mobile Integrated Health. Collaboration can be the seed that sparks new ideas and stronger communities. This panel explores how working together to prevent falls across disciplines and organizations can break down silos, inspire innovation, and turn shared ideas into action. Hear how partnerships can help communities build resilience, support active living, and create more opportunities for people to live healthy, independent lives.
Breakout Rooms – Coming soon
The 2027 Healthy Aging Summit will be held at the Jefferson Street Inn in Wausau, WI. Participants are encouraged to identify their own accommodations. Below is an incomplete list of hotels in the area: