In honor of the 25th anniversary of the International Symposium on Life Care Planning (ISLCP), we are providing historical perspectives on the various tentacles to our life care planning practice. Life care planning Summits are held by life care planners, about life care planning for life care planners. The goal of this article is to provide insight into all that goes into life care planning Summit proceedings and provide perspective on the importance of the Summits. Whether one has been a life care planner for decades, or is new to the specialty practice, it is important to understand where we came from in order to be part of where we are going. Life Care Planning Summits have been an integral part of the development of the specialty practice of life care planning. We now have nearly two decades worth of work documented on 200 plus pages by over 700 participants over the course of 10 Summits in the specialty practice of life care planning. The goal of this paper is to understand our base and journey upward to reach the pinnacle of our practice.
Cloie B. Johnson (2025) studied this question.