CNN —At age 99, former President Jimmy Carter has been many things: humanitarian, Sunday school teacher, woodworker, naval lieutenant, father, husband.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Carter said in a statement released by the Carter Center on November 19.
The Carter Center and members of the Carter family declined to give any further updates on his condition.
However, grief can be extraordinarily stressful physically and emotionally for the surviving spouse, although it’s always a highly personal experience.
Dawn Carr, a gerontologist who studies grief in older age at Florida State University.
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