LPN is involved in exciting projects to develop professional standards and to research and document cutting-edge and/or best practices in the growing field of Third Age Life Planning. Here is a sampling:

LPN News
This quarterly newsletter gives members the opportunity to work in teams to create and share informative writings with their LPN colleagues and spurs dialogue for future and ongoing discussion on issues such as “How do we integrate financial planning with life planning?”, “What is happiness?”, and “Are the Golden Years working?”. Please contact us if you would like a sample issue of our LPN Newsletter.

PRAXIS
This committee is researching, creating and promulgating best practices and standards for Third Age Life Planning. The committee has produced a document presenting a rationale for the project, defining and modeling Third Age life planning, and outlining process and content competencies. We will expand this project to include professionals in other parts of the country via a national conference.

Knowledge Management
This work group determines what knowledge and information relevant to Third Age life planning we need and how best to gather and disseminate it. We are currently gathering, compiling, and storing lists of articles, books, research studies, websites, organizations and thought leaders, and managing, updating, and disseminating this information to LPN members.

Our second phase will move us toward publishing and/or disseminating this information to a broader audience and establishing dialogue (through national conferences and other venues) to help us identify emergent patterns in the field and to create new ideas through collaboration and partnership.

Curriculum Development
A Curriculum Committee and Curriculum Design Team worked together to develop a four-module core curriculum for Life Planning that has been successfully piloted. The workshop curriculum is available for presentation by trained LPN members to organizations and companies. Contact us if you would like more information.

The work of the Design Team significantly informed Life Planning for the Third Age: A Design and Resource Guide and Toolkit, commissioned and published by Civic Ventures in January 2004, and written by LPN members Meg Newhouse with Judy Goggin.