Former US President Jimmy Carter, 98, has decided start hospice care at home after a series of recent hospital admissions.

This was reported by his NGO The Carter Center: “After a series of short hospital stays, former President Jimmy Carter decided this Saturday spend the time you have left at home with his family and receive palliative care instead of further medical intervention,” the organization said in a statement.

The Carter Center has added that the former Democratic president, in power from 1977 to 1981, “has the full support” of his medical team and his family, who according to that note “asks for privacy” at this time and appreciates the interest and concern received from his “many admirers”.

Carter, born in Plains, in the state of Georgia, turned 98 on October 1 and is longest-serving former US president in the country’s history. In 2015 underwent treatment against cancer after a small mass in his liver was removed, which he later spread to his brain, where they found four malignant melanomas. After undergoing treatment, however, the doctors indicated that, against all odds, there had been cancer free.

The former president also suffered several falls in the past that limited his mobility, such as the one he had in 2019 in which he fractured his pelvis.

The mandate of Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, only lasted four years mainly due to impact of the hostage crisis 1979 Americans in Iran.

After leaving the White House, the Democratic leader continued to influence the political life of the country from a progressive perspective, despite the fact that the most conservative have continued to criticize his management.

From the Carter Center, since 1982 he has promoted advances in election observation, human rights and public health throughout the world. The former president has also written about twenty books since he left the Presidency and taught catechism at his church in Plains.