Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, caregiver to President Ronald Reagan after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, died Sunday morning.
In 1994, Ronald Reagan announced in a letter: “I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.”
From that moment forward, he and Nancy Reagan held a public dialogue of his diagnosis and the disease, Penn Memory Center Co-Director Dr. Jason Karlawish told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
It was “tremendously courageous of them to issue that letter to the nation because it directly challenged the stigma that was attached to the diagnostic label,” Karlawish said.
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