Jimmy Carter Receiving Hospice Care at Home Instead of Additional Medical Intervention, Carter Center Says
said in a statement.The charity created by the 98-year-old former president said that Carter «decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.»It said he has the full support of his medical team and family, which «asks for privacy at this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.»In August 2015, Carter had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver. The following year, Carter announced that he needed no further treatment, as an experimental drug had eliminated any sign of cancer.Carter celebrated his most recent birthday in October with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression.The Carter Center, which the 39th president and the former first lady established after their one White House term, last year marked 40 years of promoting democracy and conflict resolution, monitoring elections, and advancing public health in the developing world.Carter, a Democrat, became the 39th U.S.