Jimmy Carter, a former US president, ceased getting medical treatment and entered a hospice. Following “a series of brief hospital stays,” the 98-year-old would be transferred to a hospice, the Carter Center reported on Saturday, February 18.
The statement said, “Former US President Jimmy Carter today chose to spend his final days at home with his family and accept hospice care rather than further medical treatment.”
He has the full support of his family and medical staff, according to the statement. The Carter family requests discretion at this time and understands the concerns of his ardent supporters.
President Carter presided over the country as its leader from 1977 to 1981. He founded the Carter Center in 1982, which has provided funding for several humanitarian endeavors.
President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 as a result of his co-founding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which aids in global initiatives for disease eradication, election supervision, and peace negotiations.
In 1994, he visited North Korea as a member of President Bill Clinton’s diplomatic mission. In 2007, he announced that he was a member of The Elders, a group of independent world leaders that collaborates on issues of peace and human rights and includes Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan.
When George H.W. Bush passed away in 2019 at the age of 94, he took the title of president with the longest lifespan.
In 2015, President Carter was told that he had metastatic cancer, albeit he did not specify when the illness first manifested itself.
Later that year, he revealed that melanoma had been discovered in his brain and liver and that he had begun getting radiation therapy and an immunotherapy medication for the condition. He said that in December 2015, results from his cancer tests had been negative.
The legislator had surgery to alleviate pressure on his head caused by the bleeding from repeated falls that he experienced in 2019.
In the forty years since leaving the administration, he has penned 30 novels, the most recent of which was published only five years ago.
Before the COVID-19 epidemic, Jimmy continued to teach Sunday school in Plains, Georgia, and he and his wife Rosalynn, whom he had married in 1946, would spend a week each year assisting with Habitat for Humanity.
The three sons of Jimmy and Rosalynn are named Jack, James III, Donnel, and Amy. Additionally, they have 13 great-grandchildren and 12 grandkids.
