The latest milestone comes as Rosalynn Carter navigates dementia and the former president, now 98, continues to receive hospice care.
, and other family members, while the surrounding community of Plains, Georgia, honors the former first lady’s years of public health advocacy.Yet they remain together in the same small town where they were born, married and that anchored Jimmy Carter’s victorious 1976 presidential campaign., the human rights organization the pair opened in Atlanta after losing his 1980 reelection bid.
She also will release butterflies in the Carters’ garden; her love of butterflies traces back to childhood. Extended family and friends also plan for several butterfly releases around Plains, including at the small public garden next to the home where Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born on Aug. 18, 1927.
Since her husband was Georgia governor in the early 1970s, Rosalynn Carter has called for a more comprehensive American health care system treating mental health as integral to overall health and recognizing the importance of caregivers to the nation’s social and economic well-being. Olsen noted the former first lady has pushed multiple US administrations to establish an office within the Department of Health and Human Services dedicated exclusively to advocating for caregivers.
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