The Carter Center said Saturday that former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care. He is 98 years old.
Former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at age 98 on Saturday, the Carter Center said.
"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," the charity, created by Carter and his wife Rosalynn in 1982, said in a statement. Carter, a Democrat, defeated former President Gerald R. Ford in 1976 and served a single term as president.
He announced in 2015 he had been diagnosed with cancer found during a surgery on his liver, a form of melanoma that spread to his brain. After several months, Carter said he was no longer receiving treatments and that his scans showed no more signs of cancer. He was also treated for aNOBEL PRIZE:
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