Former US President Jimmy Carter begins hospice care at home
Al JazeeraAt 98 years old, Jimmy Carter has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in US history. Former United States President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family”, according to a statement by the Carter Center. He began hospice care at home instead of “additional medical intervention” after a series of short hospital stays, the Carter Center said on Saturday. Carter, who has lived most of his life in Plains, Georgia, travelled extensively into his 80s and early 90s, including annual trips to build homes with Habitat for Humanity and frequent trips abroad as part of the Carter Center’s election monitoring and its effort to eradicate the Guinea worm parasite in developing countries.