These projects are affiliated with and/or sponsored by the Minnesota Northstar GWEP. Please see the resources of these outstanding partners and projects:
- Age-Friendly University of Minnesota Council includes the GWEP. The Council’s Vision is that the University of Minnesota is a leader in age-friendly work, older adults are fully integrated into University life, and our students are fully prepared to meet the needs of our changing communities. The UMN Age Friendly Council hosts an annual Age Friendly University Day event that engages retirees, older Minnesotans, and lifelong learners in a day of enriching activities and discussions centered on aging.
- African Career, Education, and Resources, Inc.: The African Immigrant Dementia Education Project offers a culturally tailored dementia education program.
- Age-Friendly Minnesota
- Aging on the Farm
- Alter™- Creating Dementia Friendly Congregations
- BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence in Dementia Caregiving
- Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation (CHAI) Opportunities for Community Engagement: Together with GWEP, CHAI is bringing together Minnesota’s best minds in geriatrics care and education. See opportunities for community engagement.
- Dementia Friends Minnesota
- Fairview Health Services
- Families and Long-Term Care Projects intends to build systems and solutions that empower and improve the quality of life of persons with memory loss and their families. Families and LTC Projects team organizes the annual Caring for People with Memory Loss Conference along with GWEP.
- Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team: Advancing the boundaries of health equity research to create innovative interventions to support healthy aging in Indigenous and Rural populations.
- Minnesota Association of Area Agencies on Aging (m4a)
- Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians (MAGIC)
- Minnesota Board on Aging
- Minnesota Gerontological Society
- Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging
- Minnesota Department of Health: Center for Health Promotion with the Minnesota Healthy Brain Partnership.
- Minnesota Department of Health: Oral Health Program building an age-friendly dental health system to address the national priority of developing a dental workforce that maximizes patient and family engagement and combines geriatrics oral health and primary care, specifically in rural Dental HPSAs.
- Minnesota Geriatrics ECHO — shared learning across the clinical and executive leaders of Minnesota’s assisted living and skilled care settings. A collaborative project with Hennepin Healthcare.
- Stratis Health
- The Indigenous Peoples Consortium is a collaboration of GWEPs nationwide committed to improving care for older American Indians (AI), Alaskan Natives (AN), and Native Hawaiians (NH) or Other Pacific Islanders (PI) through culturally centered education and training that honors Indigenous traditions, while improving health outcomes. MN GWEP is honored to be a member of this consortium.
- University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH)