Jimmy Carter, America’s longest residing former president, has determined to forego medical therapy and enter hospice therapy at house, the Carter Middle stated in an announcement on Saturday.

The Middle’s assertion on Saturday stated that after a “collection of quick hospital stays”, the 98-year-old Carter had “determined to spend his remaining time at house together with his household and receiving hospice care as a substitute of extra medical intervention”.

The Carter Middle is the previous president’s human rights organisation, which is housed at Emory College in Atlanta.

The assertion didn’t specify what the previous president had been handled for. Carter was beforehand handled for metastatic melanoma, a type of most cancers, and has suffered a number of falls in recent times. In 2019, he underwent surgical procedure to alleviate stress on his mind attributable to bleeding from the falls.

“He has the complete assist of his household and his medical staff,” the Carter Middle assertion stated on Saturday.

“The Carter household asks for privateness throughout this time and is grateful for the priority proven by his many admirers.”

Carter, a Democrat, served as America’s thirty ninth president, from 1977 to 1981. A one-time peanut farmer and the previous governor of Georgia, he misplaced his re-election bid to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 in a landslide.

However he has been celebrated within the many years since he left workplace as a frontrunner in humanitarian causes each within the US and overseas. Carter acquired the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in co-founding the Carter Middle, which works to advertise human rights and democracy the world over.

Carter lives together with his spouse, Rosalynn Carter, in Plains, Georgia, the small city the place he was born and raised. The pair — who’re among the many best-known volunteers for the reasonably priced housing charity Habitat for Humanity — have been married for 76 years.