Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was moved into hospice care on Saturday.
“After a brief hospital stay, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend the remainder of his time at home with his family and receive hospice care rather than additional medical intervention,” the Carter Center said in a statement on Saturday. “
Carter, who turns 98 in October, served as president from 1977 to 1981.
The longest-serving former president has suffered from a series of health challenges in recent years, including surviving cancer, a broken hip and a fractured pelvis and recent hospitalizations for a urinary tract infection.
He grew up in rural Georgia and served as his state’s governor before defeating incumbent Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
And although the single-term Democratic president left the Oval Office with poor approval ratings, he devoted the last several decades of his life to public service, including his work with the nonprofit Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity. Is.
Carter, who turns 98 in October, served as president from 1977 to 1981.
The longest-serving former president has suffered from a series of health challenges in recent years, including surviving cancer, a broken hip and a fractured pelvis and recent hospitalizations for a urinary tract infection.
He grew up in rural Georgia and served as his state’s governor before defeating incumbent Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
And although the single-term Democratic president left the Oval Office with poor approval ratings, he devoted the last several decades of his life to public service, including his work with the nonprofit Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity. Is.
In recent years, Carter has occasionally spoken on political matters. He asked Brian Kemp, the now-governor of Georgia, to resign from his position as secretary of state while Kemp ran for governor in 2018. In 2019, Carter said that he viewed Donald Trump as an illegitimate president. Carter also spoke in support of Joe Biden in a video at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Carter and his wife, Roslyn, are also the longest-married couple in presidential history. The pair married in August in their hometown of Plains, Ga. was seen making a rare public appearance.