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News Articles: Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving

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Carter Center Mental Health Program to merge with Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

The merger, to be completed by June 2025, will connect two issues — mental health and caregiving — championed by the late former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter.

March 05, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus conducted by Director of Choruses, Norman Mackenzie at the service honoring Rosalynn Carter at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta on Nov. 28, 2023..

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'Music was so important': Rosalynn Carter honored at song-filled celebration of life in Atlanta

Tuesday's service celebrated the former first lady's accomplishments and humanity with songs, scripture and poetry. Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus and country stars Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed some of Mrs. Carter's favorite compositions.

November 29, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Rosalynn Carter in 2006

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How to view Rosalynn Carter's memorial services and pay tribute to the former first lady

Ceremonies celebrating the life of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Nov. 19 at age 96, will take place from Monday, Nov. 27, to Wednesday, Nov. 29, in Atlanta and Sumter County, Georgia. Tune in for streaming coverage on GPB.org and GPB Radio and a television special on GPB-TV. 

November 27, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
Rosalynn Carter at the 1975 Mental Health America Conference, formerly the Mental Health Association Annual Conference.

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Historian: Rosalynn Carter made 'the world a more caring place'

Carter historian E. Stanly Godbold says Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 96, made "the world a more caring place."

November 20, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton at a ceremony at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, August 9, 1999.

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The world remembers Rosalynn Carter as tributes pour in for the former first lady

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter died Sunday at age 96. People from around the world are remembering her life and work.  

November 19, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
Portrait of Rosalynn Carter at The Carter Center, 1993

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Pioneering former first lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96

Rosalynn Carter, partner of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, changed the way Americans view mental health, and spent decades reducing stigma and fighting diseases through her work at the Carter Center.

November 19, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Portrait of Rosalynn Carter at The Carter Center, 1993

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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter celebrates 96th birthday with public screening of 'Unconditional'

The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers is hosting at Plains High School a special screening of Unconditional by award-winning filmmaker Richard Lui. RCI will have a post-screening Q&A discussion featuring RCI ambassador Paurvi Bhatt who is the co-author of the new foreword in the re-release of Mrs. Carter’s book, Helping Yourself Help Others.

August 17, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
	 Rosalynn Carter chairs a meeting in Chicago, IL. for the President's Commission on Mental Health.

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Political Rewind: Rosalynn Carter's legacy on mental healthcare and support for caregivers

Friday on Political Rewind: In this pre-recorded conversation we discuss the outpouring of support for former first lady Rosalynn Carter as her family announced her dementia diagnosis. This news comes as she spent decades fighting to erase mental health stigma and find support for caregivers. We talk to executives at the Carter Center and the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers about her legacy.

June 09, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
Rosalynn Carter speaks at the Carter Center in 2019.

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Carter Center execs discuss impact of mental health, caregiving programs founded by Rosalynn Carter

Rosalynn Carter's work is at the heart of the Carter Center's mission. The organization's executives explored the former first lady's career in this wide-ranging interview with GPB News, as heard on Political Rewind.

June 09, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge and
  • GPB News Staff
The former first lady Rosalynn Carter speaks to the press at conference at The Carter Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Atlanta.

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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, the Carter Center says

The Carter Center is sharing the news that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. The center says her family wants people to know that she continues to live happily at home with her husband, visiting with loved ones and enjoying the spring weather in Plains.

May 30, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Motorists pass a sign dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter along Jimmy Carter Blvd. on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Norcross, Ga.

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Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream

Jimmy Carter's grandson says the former president remains in good spirits three months after entering end-of-life care at home. Jason Carter says his grandfather follows public discussion of his legacy and even enjoys regular servings of ice cream.

May 23, 2023
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  • Associated Press
FILE - President Jimmy Carter with Jorge R. Videla, President of Argentina, at a meeting at the White House in Washington on Sept. 9, 1977.

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Political prisoners share how Jimmy Carter saved their lives

As Jimmy Carter rests in hospice care at his home in Georgia, The Associated Press reached out to former political prisoners who credit him with saving their lives. Carter is known around the world for trying to put human rights at the center of America's foreign policy.

May 01, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign headquarters sits in quiet downtown Plains, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Carter, who is 98 and receiving hospice care at his home in Plains, won the White House after beginning the campaign as a little-known Georgia governor. But the unlikely nature of his bid depended on many turns in his life well before 1976.

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Jimmy Carter: White House rise depended on twists before '76

As a little-known Georgia governor, Jimmy Carter took his family and friends to Iowa and New Hampshire, where "the Peanut Brigade" set the modern standard for a retail campaign and helped elect Carter as the 39th president. But the long odds weren't just about 1976 for Carter, who is 98 and now receiving end-of-life care at his home in Plains, Georgia.

February 24, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Children in the town of Terekeka, South Sudan, draw water, Oct. 4, 2017, from a stagnant pond that was once infected with Guinea worm when the town was endemic. The Carter Center said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022.

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Guinea worm eradication effort enters 'most difficult' phase

The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year. After decades of progress, the eradication program's director cautioned the end phase of the global effort to eradicate the parasitic disease will be "the most difficult."

January 25, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Rosalynn Carter speaks at the Carter Center in 2019.

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Pioneering first lady and advocate Rosalynn Carter turns 95

Rosalynn Carter's work is overdue for recognition. She has been married to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for 76 years, but her achievements as first lady and at the Carter Center stand alone.

August 18, 2022
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  • Kristi York Wooten
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