A family spokesman says former first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment. The 92-year-old former first lady has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care. Bush is battling Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and congestive heart failure and has been hospitalized several times over the last year. She has also been treated for decades for a thyroid condition known as Graves' disease.