Jimmy Carter is “at home, enjoying peanut butter ice cream,” the executive director of the 99-year-old’s nonprofit organization said, days after his grandson warned that the former president’s life was “coming to a head.” its end”.
Carter Center Executive Director Paige Alexander said on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution program Politically Georgia Podcast Wednesday that “there really hasn’t been a significant change” in the former president’s health.
The Georgia peanut farmer and oldest living president has been in hospice care for more than a year after deciding to forgo any further medical treatment.
“I mean, it’s always going to be one cold away from the end,” Alexander said on the podcast. “He’s in palliative care and there are palliative measures if he’s in pain, but nothing more.”
He is the same extraordinary man. He has always outlived us and surprised us all,” Alexander added.
Jimmy Carter is ‘at home, enjoying peanut butter ice cream,’ the executive director of the 99-year-old’s nonprofit organization said, days after his grandson warned that the former president’s life was ‘coming to a its end’.
Jason Carter told a mental health forum on Tuesday: “(My grandfather) is fine,” but warned his life was “coming to the end.”
While Jason Carter warned that his grandfather’s death could be imminent, he also told a crowd at a mental health forum Tuesday that “he’s fine.”
“He’s been in hospice care, as you know, for almost a year and a half and I think he’s really coming to the end of that, as I’ve said before, there’s a part of this journey of faith that is very important to him, and “There’s a part of that journey of faith that can only be experienced at the end and I think he’s been there in that space,” Jason Carter said.
The former president entered palliative care in February 2023 after a series of hospital visits.
He has already survived metastatic brain and liver cancer.
In November, he made a rare public appearance for his wife Rosalynn’s funeral, in a wheelchair and covered in a blanket representing her face.
They were married for 77 years and lived in the same modest home in Plains, Georgia, for decades.
The longest-married couple in U.S. presidential history, they met when Jimmy was just three years old and Rosalynn was a newborn, and celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary on July 7, 2023.
Family members say he was determined to stick it out even after entering hospice care, in part to ensure Rosalynn would never be left alone.
“He was really honored and happy that he went all the way with my grandmother, and that was a real treasure to him,” Jason Carter told the New York Times in February.
‘I think for some reason the way he approaches this is from a place of enormous faith. And so he just believes that, for some reason, God is not done with him yet,” she added.
In November, he made a rare public appearance for his wife Rosalynn’s funeral, in a wheelchair and covered in a blanket representing her face.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years and lived in the same modest home in Plains, Georgia, for decades.
Rosalynn’s funeral was the only time Carter appeared publicly since entering hospice, and his frail appearance at the service alarmed friends at church and well-wishers watching on television.
Carter spends his days in the Plains home he has owned for more than six decades, where caregivers tend to his needs and friends and family visit him.
The one-story, two-bedroom ranch home was built by Carter himself and is worth about $240,000.
Carter was elected to the Georgia State Senate on November 5, 1962, after an unsuccessful bid for the United States Senate.
He became governor of Georgia on November 3, 1970.
Carter won the United States presidential election on November 2, 1976, thanks in part to Rosalynn’s determined campaign strategy, which visited 40 states and earned her the title of “secret weapon.”
He served a single term that was ruined by an oil crisis that forced Americans to wait in line for gas and was defeated by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980.
He has since committed himself to philanthropy and lived a humble life with Rosalynn, his four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
After his presidency, the Carters began working with Habitat for Humanity, a Christian nonprofit that builds affordable homes for those in need.
Carter receives palliative care in his one-story home in Plains, Georgia, which he built himself and has owned for six decades.
In August 2015, Carter had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver.
The following year, Carter announced that he did not need further treatment, as an experimental drug had eliminated any signs of cancer.
That same year he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma that was detected in the liver and spread to the brain.
About six months after his diagnosis, Carter announced that he no longer needed cancer treatment due in part to an innovative drug that trains the immune system to fight cancerous tumors.
He was hospitalized two years later for dehydration while building homes for Habitat for Humanity in Canada.
Despite his series of health scares, the president remained active in public life until recent times.
President Joe Biden went to see Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at their home in Plains, Georgia, in April 2021, several months after he was sworn in, after the couple failed to attend the Democrat’s inauguration.
