Minnesota Historical Society

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) will conduct the planning phase for Together in Time, a project designed to meet the needs of a diverse, aging population by empowering them as lifelong learners, encouraging them to tell stories, and supporting their caregivers in their essential roles. MNHS will partner with National Museums Liverpool, Kairosalive!,and Wilder Research to focus on those at the highest risk: aging African American and Latino populations. Over the course of one year, project partners will build an understanding of the needs and challenges of African American and Latino caregivers and explore barriers caregivers encounter when using current tools and programs available through cultural organizations for people with memory loss. They will evaluate existing programmatic tools by piloting outreach and on-site programs, training programs, and mobile apps, and they will create an evaluation plan for the implementation phase of the project. Through a year of listening, testing, and evaluating, this project will prepare MNHS to meet the needs of a diverse, aging population with culturally relevant, accessible programming and help history museums and sites nationwide serve their own memory-loss communities.