COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Experts warn South Carolina is experiencing “crisis levels” of dementia: An estimated one in 10 South Carolinians over 65 is living with Alzheimer’s, and the state’s mortality rate is eighth highest in the nation.

Yet doctors, researchers, and advocates have new hope for advances and improvements in the fight against the devastating disease.

Two years ago, the General Assembly allocated $10 million in the state budget to establish South Carolina’s first Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center .

Today, it is funding some of the most innovative dementia research in South Carolina in decades, according to Taylor Wilson with the Alzheimer’s Association’s South Carolina chapter.

“We have seen more outreach to communities, more education to the workforce, early detection

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