Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, has entered a home care facility in Plains, Georgia, The Carter Center said in a brief statement Saturday.
“After a series of brief hospital stays, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospital care rather than further medical intervention,” it says the statement
“He has the full support of his family and medical team,” the statement also said.
“The Carter family requests privacy during this time and appreciates the concern shown by their many fans,” the statement concluded.
Carter was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015, but was cancer-free after treatment, The Hill reported. Carter was also hospitalized several times in 2019 to treat injuries he suffered after falling. One injury involved a broken hip; another injury required stitches.
Jimmy Carter, born James Earl Carter, Jr., is the 39th President of the United States. The former governor of Georgia, the Democratic leader defeated then-President Gerald Ford, a Republican, in the 1976 election. He served one term in the Oval Office from 1977 to 1981, losing to President Ronald Reagan, Republican, in the 1980 presidential election.
One of Carter’s major achievements in foreign relations included the Camp David Accords.
The Camp David Accords, signed by Carter, former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Meachem Begin, “established a framework” for an Arab-Israeli peace process. The Camp David Accords were concluded in 1979.
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Carter established the Department of Energy in 1977 and enacted several programs under a newly established Cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
Until 2020, Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter, 95, volunteered one week a year for Habitat for Humanity. Habitat celebrates the Carters as its “most famous volunteers.” Habitat describes its mission as “Seeking to put God’s love into action… bring[ing] people together to build homes, communities and hope.”
Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded The Carter Center, a non-governmental, non-profit organization, in 1982 in partnership with Emory University in Atlanta. The organization’s motto is “Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope.”
Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 “for his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
The Carters have three sons, one daughter, 12 grandchildren (one deceased) and 14 great-grandchildren.
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