Jimmy Carter’s grandson says the 99-year-old president is ‘coming to the end’ after more than a year in hospice care

Jimmy Carter’s grandson has revealed that the 99-year-old former president is “coming to the end.”

The Georgia peanut farmer and oldest living president has been in hospice care for more than a year after deciding to forego further medical treatment.

Since then, his beloved wife Rosalynn has passed away and he lives at home with regular visits from his family.

Jason Carter said at a mental health forum on Tuesday: “My grandfather is doing well.”

He’s been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now, and he’s really coming to the end, I think, that as I’ve said before, part of this faith journey is so hard. important to him, and there’s a part of that faith journey that you don’t get to experience until the very end and I think he’s been there in that space’.

Carter entered hospice 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 memorial service, in a wheelchair and covered with a blanket depicting 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 just born, and celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary on July 7, 2023.

Family members say he was determined to stick it out even after being admitted to hospice, in part to ensure Rosalynn would never be left alone.

“He was really honored and happy that he made it to the end with my grandmother, and that was a real treasure for him,” Jason Carte told the newspaper. New York Times in February.

“I think he’s approaching this, for whatever reason, with tremendous faith. And so he just believes that, for whatever reason, God is not done with him yet,” he added.

In November, he made a rare public appearance for his wife Rosalynn’s memorial service, in a wheelchair and covered with a blanket depicting 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 in public since entering hospice care, 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 60 years, where caregivers tend to his needs and friends and family visit.

The two-bedroom, one-story ranch house was built by Carter himself and is valued at approximately $240,000.

Jimmy was elected to the Georgia Senate on November 5, 1962, after an unsuccessful election for the U.S. Senate.

He won the election for Governor of Georgia on November 3, 1970.

Jimmy won the US presidential election on November 2, 1976, thanks in part to Rosalynn’s determined campaign strategy, which visited forty states and earned her the title of Jimmy’s “secret weapon.”

He served a single term blighted by an oil crisis that forced Americans to line up for gasoline, and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

He has since devoted himself to philanthropy and lives a modest 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 people in need.

Carter receives hospice care in his one-story home in Plains, Georgia, which he built and has owned for 60 years

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 because an experimental drug had eliminated any sign of cancer.

That same year, he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma that was detected in his liver and spread to his brain.

About six months after the diagnosis, Carter announced he no longer needed cancer treatment, in part because of a breakthrough drug that trains the immune system to fight cancerous tumors.

Two years later, he was hospitalized for dehydration while building homes with Habitat for Humanity in Canada.

Despite his series of health problems, the president remained active in public life until recently.