Ajit Karn
The Carter Center announced on Saturday that former US President Jimmy Carter would start receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia.
Former US President Jimmy Carter has made the decision to spend the remainder of his life at home with his family and receive hospice care rather than further medical treatment. This follows a string of brief hospital hospitalisations. His family and medical staff are fully behind him, according to the statement.
The former president’s grandson, Jason Carter, a former Democratic state legislator from Georgia, stated of his grandparents on Friday that “they are at peace and – as always – their house is full of love.”
After the death of George H.W. Bush in late 2018 at the age of 94, Jimmy Carter, who turned 98 last year, surpassed George H.W. Bush as the oldest sitting US president in history. The coronavirus epidemic has caused the nation’s 39th president to maintain a low public profile in recent years, but he hasn’t stopped speaking out against threats to democracy throughout the world, a lifelong concern of his.
Carter overcame brain cancer in 2015, but in 2019 he experienced a number of health concerns, leading to surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. He had been teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his birthplace of Plains, Georgia, for decades, but health issues caused him to stop.
Before entering politics, Carter, a Democrat, was a peanut farmer and a lieutenant in the US Navy. He then served one term as Georgia’s governor and as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
For promoting human rights, the previous president is well regarded. His role in mediating the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978 between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat remains crucial to his reputation.
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, established The Carter Center in the years after his administration in an effort to advance global health and peace. Over the years, the centre has sought to promote democracy by keeping track of elections held abroad and lowering sickness rates in poor nations.
Carter has worked with Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer for a very long time.
For his efforts to promote peace all around the world, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
Carter’s longtime admirer and fellow Democrat President Joe Biden has been informed of his failing health and desire to seek hospice care, an official said. The Carter family and the tight-knit group of advisors remain in frequent communication with Biden.
In 2021, on the 100th day of Biden’s administration, the Bidens visited the Carters in Georgia.
According to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Archive, Biden was one of the first US senators to support Carter during his 1976 presidential campaign.
Throughout the Republican president’s tenure, Carter had several communications with the White House and the Trump administration.
During a briefing on North Korea in 2018, Carter claimed to have expressed a willingness to visit the nation on behalf of the Trump administration. In April 2019, he also called Trump and sent him a letter on the trade ties between the US and China.
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The Georgia Democrat demanded a thorough investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, suggesting that it “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016,” and the relationship soured later that year despite the White House describing the call as a “very good telephone conversation” and noting that Trump “has always liked President Carter.” In response to Trump’s plan to stop financing the World Health Organization in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, Carter later issued warnings.
