The former first lady and lifelong mental health advocate, 95, lives with her ailing husband, Jimmy Carter, 98, in Plains, Georgia
The former US first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, her family announced on Tuesday.
Carter, 95, lives in Plains, Georgia, with her husband, Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old 39th president who has been in hospice care since February.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the Carter Center said Rosalynn Carter “continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones”.
The Carters married in 1946, shortly after Jimmy Carter graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was elected governor of Georgia in 1971 and US president five years later, defeating the Republican incumbent, Gerald Ford.
Rosalynn Carter was an influential first lady, known to some as “the Steel Magnolia”.
