Former US President Jimmy Carter will receive palliative care for a year on Sunday. During this time, he defies all odds, turns 99, and attends his wife Rosalynn's funeral.
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“One year after entering hospice care, President Carter is still at home with his family,” his charitable foundation, the Carter Center, said in a statement to American media on the first anniversary of his decision to remain in hospice care. his home in Plains, Georgia (southeast) does not benefit from additional medical interventions after a series of hospitalizations.
“The Carter family expresses its gratitude for the many messages of love they have received and for the continued respect for their private life,” says the foundation of the former American president (1977-1981).
“The family is pleased that his decision last year to enter hospice care has sparked so much family discussion around the country on this important topic,” the statement continued.
Jimmy Carter is the oldest former president of the United States in the country's history.
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The former Democratic president last appeared in public in November, at the funeral of his wife Rosalynn Carter, who died at age 96.
“When he entered palliative care (…), we thought it was a matter of days,” said his grandson Jason Carter, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“That’s what the doctors said. But another way to look at it is to assume that God isn’t done with him yet,” he continued.
Jimmy Carter was president for only one term. As the architect of the Camp David Accords, which led to the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in March 1979, he was sharply criticized in his country during the American hostage crisis in Iran in 1979-80.
After leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter founded the Carter Center in 1982 to promote development, health and conflict resolution around the world.
A tireless traveler, he can be found everywhere: Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua and even East Timor.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, in particular for “his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.”