{"id":1940821,"date":"2023-05-30T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-announces-medical-diagnosis-for-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:20:55","slug":"family-announces-medical-diagnosis-for-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-announces-medical-diagnosis-for-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalynn Carter&#8217;s family reveals her medical diagnosis."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamily-announces-medical-diagnosis-for-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Diagnosed with Dementia<\/h2>\n<p>The family of former first lady Rosalynn Carter announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with dementia. Despite the diagnosis, Carter, who is now 95 years old, remains at home in Plains, Georgia, with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter. The couple, who have been married for nearly 77 years, are the longest-married first couple in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Carter family is sharing that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Full statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrpcYhPwn4\">https:\/\/t.co\/FrpcYhPwn4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ng4mnAZiPS\">pic.twitter.com\/Ng4mnAZiPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarterCenter\/status\/1663591111451869201?\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Carters have been spending time only with family and close friends since the former president\u2019s announcement in February that he would forgo further medical intervention after a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-carter-enters-hospice-care\/\" title=\"Jimmy Carter Enters Hospice Care\">short hospital stays<\/a>. The family has not disclosed any specific diagnosis for either the former president or the former first lady.<\/p>\n<h3>A Life of Advocacy<\/h3>\n<p>Rosalynn Carter has spent her long public life advocating for individuals and families affected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">mental illness<\/a> and for those in caregiving relationships with loved ones. She has worked tirelessly to address the stigma attached to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-pandemic-drives-record-breaking-number-of-drug-overdoses\/\" title=\"COVID-19 Pandemic Drives \u2018Record Breaking\u2019 Number Of Drug Overdoses\">mental health conditions<\/a>, making it a priority in the Carter Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-announces-medical-diagnosis-for-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter\/\" title=\"Rosalynn Carter's family reveals her medical diagnosis.\">expansive public health platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. 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,\u201d the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h3>A Legacy of Service<\/h3>\n<p>Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1924. It was Jimmy Carter\u2019s mother, a nurse, who delivered her in her family\u2019s home. Lillian Carter brought her young son back a few days later to visit, allowing the future president and first lady to meet as preschooler and newborn. Rosalynn Carter campaigned vigorously for her husband in his Democratic bids for Georgia governor and the presidency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ones, but she has dementia,\u201d said the family in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1940822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[20137,7154,3881,4268,5114,27929],"class_list":["post-1940821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-carters","tag-diagnosis","tag-family","tag-medical","tag-reveals","tag-rosalynn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}