Former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at home

Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, entered hospice care on Saturday, the Atlanta-based Carter Center reported.

The charity created by the president reported that after several hospitalizations the former Democratic president “decided to spend the time he had left at home with his family by receiving palliative care instead of additional medical intervention.”

In this final stage of the former president, according to the center, in the home environment he has the support of his medical team. The family “asks for privacy and appreciates the concern shown by many fans.”

Democrat Carter became the 39th president of the United States when he defeated former President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. He served a single term and was succeeded by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

The former president faced challenges during his government, such as the resurgence of revolutionary movements in Latin America, including the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and the prelude to the civil war in El Salvador.

In the United States, the hostage-taking of the US embassy in Iran persists in the collective memory, which lasted 444 days with 66 US diplomats and citizens held by revolutionary Islamist militias. The former president said that he would not give in to the blackmail of the revolutionary government established in Iran.

In August 2015, Carter underwent removal of a cancerous tumor on his liver. Following the procedure she announced that she did not need further treatment, after undergoing a novel experimental drug.

Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have held family gatherings with friends in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where they were born.

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