Longtime aide to Rosalynn Carter on her decades-long work advocating for caregivers and mental health care

Kathy Cade has worked alongside Rosalynn Carter for more than five decades.

Cade, who serves as the vice chair of The Carter Center, and a board member of Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, says she started working with the former first lady in 1976.

Earlier this week, The Carter Center announced that Carter has dementia,  a disease that affects a person’s mental health, specifically their memory, thinking, and the ability to perform daily activities.