April 2021
2021 Healthy Aging Summit
Healthy Aging
in the Age of COVID

Registration Now Open!

When: June 3-4, 2021
Where: Online
Join us as we learn from experts, sharpen skills, and leave with new ideas for improving the health of our communities.
This year we're exploring how the pandemic has altered our priorities and practices and how we are responding to ensure that people can age well. 
Continuing Education Hours:

WIHA has applied for 8.5 Continuing Education Hours from the UW-Stevens Point Dept. of Sociology. Certificates of completion will be emailed to participants after the conference.
Click the registration program above to see the full agenda.
Discounted Registration for WIHA Program Providers!

WIHA Program Providers get a special discounted rate when registering for the Healthy Aging Summit. The regular fee is $149 - but for you, it's discounted to $129. Simply use the code RPP2021 when you register to get the reduced rate.

Scholarships Available for Program Volunteers

A limited number of scholarships are available for program volunteers to attend the event. Scholarships are awarded on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in securing a volunteer scholarship or if you have questions, please contact Karen Beck at karen.beck@wihealthyaging.org.
Questions?

Please contact Kris Krasnowski at
Summit Sessions
Keynote Address:
The Future of Elderhood:
Integrative Aging, Better Health
Louise Aronson, MD -
UC-San Francisco

Generously sponsored by Bader Philanthropies
Author and physician, Dr. Louise Aronson will provide the keynote address on Friday, June 4th at 11:00 am.

Check out Dr. Aronson's appearance on CBS This Morning here.
General Session:
The Promise - In the Age of COVID


Speaker: Vivian Nava-Schellinger - Director, Partnerships & Network Activation, National 
Council on Aging
General Session:
Advancing Age-Friendly Health & Public Health Systems

Speakers: Jane Carmody - Program Officer, John A. Hartford Foundation; Carrie Molke, Director, WI Bureau of Aging & Disability Resources
General Session:
Loneliness & Social Isolation: Identifying & Supporting Those Who are Alone and Lonely

Generously sponsored by AARP WI
General Session:
Emerging from the Pandemic: What We've Learned & Where We Go From Here
Breakout Sessions:

In addition to our general sessions, we'll also offer 15 breakout sessions on these health and wellness topics:
  • Matching Needs to Support: Diabetes Prevention, Self-Management & Clinical Interventions
 
  • Developing Age-Friendly Communities — The Wisconsin Experience 

  • Using Data and Evidence about Health Aging to Promote Health Equity in Wisconsin 

  • The Unique Role of Rehabilitative Therapy in Older Adult Health & How to Develop Partnerships that Promote Community Wellness

  • Bon Voyage! Safe Travel Tips in the Age of COVID-19 

  • Moving Past COVID: Evidence-Based Programs to Reduce Sedentary Lifestyles 

  • Still Standing Wisconsin - The Wisconsin Falls Prevention Initiative

  • Meditation: Training the Mind for Performance and Well-Being

  • Barbershop Health Clinic – Health Equity Outside the Hospital

  • Vaccination Hesitancy & Older Adults: Lessons Learned from Outreach Efforts 

  • Promoting Your Program: Leveraging Science & Experience to Boost  Engagement

  • Developing Partnerships to Maximize Impact: Practical Advice for Community Collaboration

  • Brain Health & Aging: Lost Cause or Lost Opportunity 

  • From Research, to Practice, to People: Bringing New WIHA Programs to Your Community

  • Home-Grown Solutions for Healthy Aging in Rural Towns
Thank You, Summit Sponsors!
Leadership Circle:
Platinum Sponsors:
Gold Sponsors:
Silver Sponsors:
- WIHA Program News -
Data Collection Updates & Requests
Thank you, thank you for all your work in distributing and collecting workshop participant data. As you know, the data is critically important as it allows us (in Wisconsin) to inform national and local partners of the reach and impact of our programs. Unfortunately, we are not seeing a good return rate for the online workshop surveys and ask that you take steps to help us collect the data (see strategies and tips for data collection at right).

In addition, we respectfully ask that you keep track of which of your participants filled out the survey, rather than emailing us to check. It's very time-consuming to search in the system for participants with the volume of workshops taking place statewide.

Thank you so much for your assistance with all of this. Please let us know if you are experiencing issues with data collection. We will continue to work to make this as easy and effective as possible for our partners and participants.
Strategies and tips for getting participant data:

1. Ask participants to do the survey during an orientation session
(session 0).

2. Ask participants to join 15 minutes early for session 1 (usual practice) and enter the survey link in the chat box. As participants “arrive,” have them click on the link and fill out the survey before the session starts.

3. Remind participants that the online surveys are safe and secure through WIHA.

4. If a participant is uncomfortable filling out the survey online, you can either;

  • Mail them a paper copy, ask them to mail it back to you and you enter it using the Wufoo link to the online form

  • Verbally ask them the questions over the phone during session 0 and enter it into the online Wufoo form.
Be Active Tips

Physical Activity for Lifelong Success (PALS) program providers and others who want to encourage physical activity now have some new "tips" graphics to use in newsletters, on social media or in other communication. Check out all the tips at the link below OR download Tip #4 at right.
Questions? Contact the WIHA staff lead for the program in question:
PROGRAMS:
*Living Well w/
Chronic Conditions
*Healthy Living w/
Diabetes
*Healthy Living w/
Chronic Pain
PROGRAM:
*Physical Activity for
Lifelong Success"
(PALS), "Stand Up, Move More", *Walk With Ease

PROGRAMS:
*Stepping On
*Mind Over Matter:
Healthy Bowels,
Healthy Bladder


PROGRAM:
*Powerful Tools for
Caregivers"
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