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SD Alzheimer’s Association Working on Statewide Plan

SD Alzheimer’s Association Working on Statewide Plan

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The South Dakota Alzheimer’s Association held a number of town halls and focus groups last fall to come up with a statewide plan to help those with the disease, and their families and caregivers.
Leslie Morrow, Executive Director of the association, says they were surprised by the response……

Morrow says they are seeing wide impacts of the disease…..

Morrow says they will use much of what they have learned in coming up with the plan…..

Morrow says they will take the plan to the 2019 session of the South Dakota legislature.

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