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...slow. I am proud that Last Acts, a coalition of more than 500 very diverse organizations, offers a place where hospital administrators, insurance executives, doctors, nurses, clergy, Medicare regulators--and every family--can share ideas and strategies for helping Americans face their final days on their own terms. ROSALYNN CARTER Honorary Chairperson, Last Acts Plains...
...wife Rosalynn, with whom he works on low-income housing issues and other humanitarian causes, will receive her own medal...
...Americans with mental illness simply aren't treated. Of the 2 million who suffer from schizophrenia, for instance, more than half receive substandard care. Only a third of those with serious depression receive any treatment. Reformers have tried to call attention to these problems for years--former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been an advocate since the '60s--but the mentally ill have a powerful new ally...
...Jimmy Carter, and so it somehow seems appropriate that the 39th President, now 74, has become a guru of his latest stage of life. His book The Virtues of Aging (Ballantine) has become a best seller because of its unpretentious wisdom. Carter writes about how he and his wife Rosalynn have adjusted to getting older, even addressing their sex life. ("Rosalynn and I have learned to accommodate each other's desires more accurately and generously.") Not surprisingly, their retirement is busier than the entire careers of most younger people (Carter's mother Miss Lillian set the example: she joined...
...husband's Administration, a far greater influence on presidential policy than anyone since Mrs. Wilson. It was not until years later, when Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's condition was disclosed, that the nation began to take Nancy Reagan to its heart. Lady Bird Johnson (still a beloved national figure), Rosalynn Carter and Barbara Bush all managed to balance the external and internal functions of First Lady. They were good performers, good wives and good political partners. All of them promoted important causes--but none was an independent political figure. Nor was Betty Ford, an ordinary political housewife catapulted into...