Former President Jimmy Carter ‘receiving palliative care’ at home

Former US President Jimmy Carter, 98, is in ‘hospice care’ at home, says his foundation in a statement on Saturday. “After a series of short hospital stays, the former US President decided today to spend the time he has left with his family and receive palliative care, rather than additional medical intervention,” she let know. “The Carter family wishes to maintain their privacy during this time and is grateful for the interest shown by their many supporters,” the foundation said in a statement.

His grandson, Jason Carter, said he saw his “both grandparents yesterday”. “They are at peace, and as always, their home is full of love,” the former Georgia lawmaker tweeted. Jimmy Carter was elected to the White House in 1976, in an America still marked by the Watergate scandal which had prompted President Nixon to resign. The Democrat served only one term as president.

From the Camp David Accords to the Nobel Peace Prize

Artisan of the Camp David agreements which led, in March 1979, to the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, he had been strongly criticized in his country during the taking of Americans hostages in Iran in 1979-1980. After leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter founded The Carter Center in 1982 to promote development, health, and conflict resolution around the world. In 2002, he received the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, in particular for “his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts”.

The former tenant of the White House had already suffered from a series of health problems which had forced him to be hospitalized several times in 2019. In April 2021, US President Joe Biden went to visit him in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he has resided since leaving Washington. Jimmy Carter did not appear in front of reporters on this occasion, but his wife Rosalynn, who used a walker, was seen alongside the Biden couple.

The former president and his wife met in 1945 through the Democrat’s little sister, who was then a student at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and celebrated her 75th wedding anniversary last year. In 1976, Joe Biden, then a young senator from Delaware, was one of the first elected officials to support Jimmy Carter in his race for the presidency.

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