Former President Jimmy Carter has started receiving hospice care at home, according to the Carter Center on Saturday.
According to the 98-year-old former president’s foundation, Carter “chosen to spend his remaining time at home with his family and accept hospice care instead of extra medical intervention” following a string of brief hospital stints.
It stated that his family, who “asks for privacy at this time and is appreciative for the concern exhibited by his many followers,” has his entire support as well as that of his medical staff.
When Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Republican Gerald R. Ford in 1976, he was elected as the 39th president of the United States. In 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan beat him after a single term in office.
Although he had responded well to treatment, the Georgia native had recently struggled with a number of health problems, including an aggressive melanoma that spread to his liver and brain.
Carter underwent liver surgery to remove a tiny malignant tumour in August 2015. The following year, Carter declared that he was done with therapy since an experimental medication had wiped out all traces of cancer.
In the little Georgia town of Plains, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression, Carter celebrated his most recent birthday in October with family and friends.
The Carter Center has been fostering democracy and conflict resolution, overseeing elections, and expanding public health in the developing countries for 40 years. The 39th president and the former first lady founded it following their one White House tenure.
After starting the 1976 presidential campaign as a little-known, one-term Georgia governor, James Earl Carter Jr. eventually triumphed. He unexpectedly won the Iowa caucuses, turning the little Midwestern state into the centre of presidential campaigning. In the end, Carter defeated Ford in the general election, partly thanks to his victory in the South before the Republican Party gained significant ground in his home state.
