Jimmy Carter, a former president of the United States, stopped receiving medical care and entered hospice. The 98-year-old would go from “a succession of brief hospital stays” to a hospice, the Carter Center said in a statement.
The statement read, “Former US President Jimmy Carter chose to spend his final days at home with his family today and accepted hospice care instead of additional medical treatment.”.
It stated that “his family and medical staff are fully behind him.”. The Carter family values the worries of his large following and requests privacy at this time.
From 1977 to 1981, President Carter presided over the nation. In 1982, he established the Carter Center, which supported numerous charitable causes.
For his work in helping to co-found the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which supports international disease prevention and eradication initiatives, election monitoring, and peace talks, President Carter was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
He traveled to North Korea in 1994 as part of President Bill Clinton’s peace mission there. He announced in 2007 that he was a member of The Elders, a group of independent world leaders that works on peace and human rights issues and includes Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan.
When George H.W. W. Bush became the president who had lived the longest when he passed away in 2019 at the age of 94.
Although he did not say where the cancer started, President Carter received a metastatic cancer diagnosis in 2015.
He revealed later that year that melanoma had been found in his brain and liver and that he had started receiving treatment with radiation therapy and an immunotherapy drug. He claimed that his cancer testing had produced negative results in December 2015.
The lawmaker injured himself in falls throughout the year, and as a result, required hospital surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from the hemorrhage brought on by the falls.
He has penned 30 novels in the forty years since he left office, the most recent of which was only released five years ago.
Jimmy kept on instructing Sunday school in Plains, Georgia, up until the COVID-19 outbreak. Every year, he would volunteer with Habitat for Humanity for a week with his wife Rosalynn, whom he had married in 1946.
Jack, James III, Donnel, and Amy are three of Jimmy and Rosalynn’s children. Amy is one of their daughters. Twelve grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren are also born to them.
