The Carter Middle stated Saturday that former President Jimmy Carter has entered dwelling hospice care.

The charity created by the 98-year-old former president stated on Twitter that after a sequence of brief hospital stays, Carter “determined to spend his remaining time at dwelling along with his household and obtain hospice care as an alternative of further medical intervention.”

It stated he has the complete help of his medical group and household, which “asks for privateness right now and is grateful for the priority proven by his many admirers.”

Carter, a Democrat, turned the thirty ninth U.S. president when he defeated former President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. He served a single time period and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In August 2015, Carter had a small cancerous mass faraway from his liver. The next 12 months, Carter introduced that he wanted no additional therapy, as an experimental drug had eradicated any signal of most cancers.

Carter celebrated his most up-to-date birthday in October with household and pals in Plains, the tiny Georgia city the place he and his spouse, Rosalynn, had been born within the years between World Battle I and the Nice Melancholy.

The Carter Middle, which the thirty ninth president and the previous first woman established after their one White Home time period, final 12 months marked 40 years of selling democracy and battle decision, monitoring elections, and advancing public well being within the growing world.

James Earl Carter Jr. received the 1976 presidential election after starting the marketing campaign as a little-known, one-term Georgia governor. His shock efficiency within the Iowa caucuses established the small, Midwestern state as an epicenter of presidential politics. Carter went on to defeat Ford within the basic election, largely on the energy of sweeping the South earlier than his native area shifted closely to Republicans.