The family of former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that his wife, Rosalynn Carter, has been diagnosed with dementia.
Carter served as honorary chair of the President’s Commission on Mental Health in 1977 and, two years later, became the first sitting U.S. first lady to address the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly to talk about the commission’s findings. Her work contributed to the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, which was aimed at protecting people with mental illness from discrimination.In 1991, Carter established the Carter Center Mental Health Program.
The former first lady’s diagnosis was announced months after President Carter, 98, entered hospice care.“As the founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, Mrs. Carter often noted that there are only four kinds of people in this world: those who have been caregivers; those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers,” family members.
“We do not expect to comment further and ask for understanding for our family and for everyone across the country serving in a caregiver role.”
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