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Fascinating partnership forges even more new connections

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published September 27, 2017 at 8:45 AM CDT
Minnesota Historical Society

The heartbreak of dementia, obviously, is losing the ability to connect with someone you love.

But the solution could soon be in the palm of your hand. 

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The milking stool was another image widely - and happily - recognized by Minnesotans, but they emphasized that it needed to be a three-legged stool: four-legged stools were "for lazy people"

The Minnesota Historical Society is the first museum outside the UK to adapt the National Museums Liverpool's House of Memories app, a collection of images designed to spark recognition, memories and conversations between folks with dementia and their caregivers or loved ones.

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Creating meaningful conversations with dementia-sufferers isn't just a blessing for family and friends; it can decrease burnout among caregivers, too

More information about the House of Memories app can be found here (about the original program in the UK) and here (on the Minnesota Historical Society's website).  Folks can also contact Maren Levad, the app's program manager, to learn more.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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