With an aging population, South Dakota is sure to see increasing numbers of people with Alzheimer’s Disease, and more impacts connected to those cases.
Leslie Morrow, Executive Director of the South Dakota Alzheimers Association, says they are working to implement a state plan…..

Morrow says they are holding a series of meetings this month to come up with a frame work…..

Morrow says they want to gather hard numbers, and stories of those affected by Alzheimer’s…..

Currently there are about sixteen thousand people in the state diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. South Dakota has the highest death rate from the disease in the country.