Former President Jimmy Carter decides to receive hospice care at home
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Former United State's President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care at his home in Georgia instead of additional medical intervention.
The Carter Center, a non-profit organization founded by the former president and his wife, Rosalynn Carter put a statement out Saturday about the former president's decision.
"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," the organization stated.
Carter's grandson, Jason Carter, a former Georgia State Senator also tweeted Saturday about his visit to his grandparents, "They are at peace and — as always — their home is full of love,” the former senator stated.
I saw both of my grandparents yesterday. They are at peace and—as always—their home is full of love. Thank you all for your kind words https://t.co/9rhG61sZEV
— Jason Carter (@SenatorCarter) February 18, 2023
Former President Carter made several impacts in his lifetime. Carter was elected president on Nov 2. 1976 and served one presidential term.
According to the Carter Center, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 to the former president “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
Carter has also been a long-time volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Carter and his wife Rosalynn reportedly have built, renovated, or repaired more than 4,300 homes alongside more than 100,000 volunteers across 14 countries.
During Carter's presidential term, he visited several cities across the state of Missouri including Columbia in 1978 where he spoke at the Hearnes Center at the University of Missouri. Carter also visited Hannibal and Clarksville Missouri during a trip on the delta queen in August of 1979.
Kai Bird, author of, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter" told CNN the last time he saw carter at his 75th wedding anniversary in 2021. "He had just had a fall that week, a few days earlier, gashed his forehead, and had many stitches but he was determined to make the event. He sat there in a wheelchair and greeted each and every one of us," said Bird.
