Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President, enters home hospice care at age 98
(Jimmy Carter, entering home hospice care)
Beloved humanitarian, human rights advocate, nuclear physicist, Georgia peanut farmer, U.S. Navy veteran, former Georgia Governor and thirty-ninth President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, has entered home hospice care. Carter turned 98-years-young on his last birthday in October. In recent years, the former President has been making headlines for getting hurt, undergoing serious cancer surgeries – but then being seen banging nails on Habitat for Humanity construction sites just days later.
Following a series of short hospital stays, The Carter Center (Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope) issued a statement yesterday saying that the decision to enter hospice care was Carter’s personal decision, “instead of additional medical intervention.”
Statement on President Carter’s Health
Feb. 18, 2023
ATLANTA (Feb. 18, 2023) — After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.
Following yesterday’s news, Senator Raphael Warnock, who currently represents Carter’s home state of Georgia, called the former president “a man of great faith” who “has walked with God,” according to CBS News.
“In this tender time of transitioning, God is surely walking with him,” Warnock, who is also a minister, said on Twitter. “May he, Rosalynn & the entire Carter family be comforted with that peace and surrounded by our love & prayers.”
Carter married the love of his life, Rosalynn Smith of Plains, Georgia, on July 7, 1946. Rosalynn is now 95, and the couple is often photographed together and holding hands.
In his younger years, Carter joined the U.S. Naval Academy during World War II and went on to become an officer in the service during the Cold War. In the 1950s, following the death of his father, he returned to his hometown of Plains with Rosalynn to assume the family peanut business.
Carter was a little-known Georgia governor when he began his bid for the presidency ahead of the 1976 election. He went on to defeat then-President Gerald R. Ford, capitalizing as a Washington outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office in 1974. ~ The Associated Press
See: About Us – Biography of Jimmy Carter
The former POTUS was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts” and his “outstanding commitment to human rights,” according to NBC News.
For more on the 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter Jr., see the video accompanying this article.
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