Former President Jimmy Carter.Photo: John Bazemore, Pool/AP
Jimmy Carteris set to begin receiving hospice care.
The Carter Center announced in a statement on Saturday that the former U.S. president, 98, will bemoved to hospice carefollowing “a series of short hospital stays.”
“Former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” the statement said. “He has the full support of his family and his medical team.”
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President Carter’s health news comes about after he set anew record as the longest-living United States presidentin October.
He’s held the title since March 2019, months after the previous titleholder — PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush—died at the age of 94.
Jimmy Carter.Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images
President Carter may have only led the nation for four years, but in the four decades that have followed his White House tenure, he’s managed to leverage his place in history to help others both domestically and abroad.
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Until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Carters spent a week each year volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. For many of those years, President Carter also taught Sunday school classes in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, a small rural area with a population in the hundreds.
source: people.com
