The former US president left the hospital to spend the rest of his life at home

Carter remained active even after leaving the White House and engaged in humanitarian work through his foundation. He is 98 years old, and it was recently announced that he has melanoma that has spread to his liver and heart. Carter is the oldest living US president

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Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States of America, will receive hospice care at his home in the state of Georgia, his foundation announced.

The Carter Center said the former US head of state had decided to "spend his remaining time at home with his family", but did not say what influenced his decision.

Carter is 98 years old, and it was recently announced that he has melanoma that has spread to his liver and heart.

He is the oldest living American president, and he was at the head of the USA from 1977 to 1981.

America faced a series of foreign policy challenges during Carter's reign, and in the 1980 presidential election he was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan.

"He has the support of the whole family and the medical team.

"The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is very grateful for the concern of the former president's many admirers," the Carter Center said in a statement.

Terminally ill patients may seek hospital care instead of undergoing further medical treatment.

The priority is not to provide further treatment, but to provide comfort towards the end of the patient's life.

Carter's grandson, Jason, a former Georgia state senator, tweeted that he "visited his grandparents yesterday."

"They are peaceful and, as always, their home is full of love. Thank you all for your kind words," he wrote.

In 2021, Carter and his wife Roslyn celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary.

They have four children together.

Carter was born in 1924 in Georgia, and entered politics in the 60s, when he was elected as a senator.

In 1971, Carter was elected governor of Georgia.

Five years later, he defeated Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, and became the President of America.

But very soon after taking office, Carter faced problems.

At home, the oil crisis caused high inflation and unemployment, and he struggled to convince Americans to accept the necessary austerity measures.

The highlight of the Carter years was the signing of the Camp David Agreement in 1978, by which Egypt formally recognized the state of Israel.

He also signed a treaty giving Panama back control of the Panama Canal.

In 1979, the last Shah of Iran was overthrown, and 66 Americans were kidnapped in Tehran.

Carter severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed a trade embargo.

However, the public felt that he was not tough enough and his popularity declined as American citizens were held hostage for 444 days.

His popularity declined after an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the hostages, in which eight members of the US military died.

Iran then delayed the release of the hostages until Ronald Reagan was sworn in.


Carter and Tito's funeral

On May 4, 1980, all world agencies reported Broz's death as urgent news, and in Algeria, the meeting of the central committee, which honored the Yugoslav president with a minute of silence, was interrupted, it was recorded in the book Tito's Last Battle.

A seven-day mourning was declared in Yugoslavia.

At the SFRY embassy in Washington, the phone rang.

Yugoslav Ambassador Budimir Lončar picked up the phone - on the other side was American President Jimmy Carter.

"He called to express his condolences on behalf of the Government and the people and to say that he was thinking of coming to the funeral, but that he had some internal political problems," Lončar recalled for the BBC in Serbian in 2020.

Carter will still board the plane to Belgrade just over a month after Tito's death.

This is how he avoided a meeting with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, and some other political opponents from the world, still divided by the Cold War, who gathered in Belgrade on May 8.

The Cold War, a period of tension between the United States, the Western Bloc, and the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, created after the Second World War, created a bipolar world, Geoffrey Swain, professor emeritus of the University of Glasgow, told the BBC in Serbian in 2020.

"Carter probably succumbed to Republican pressure. It was perhaps a sign that the bipolar world, in which Tito managed so well, would begin to change," he adds.


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Carter remained active even after leaving the White House and engaged in humanitarian work through his foundation

He led a delegation that sought to persuade military leaders in Haiti to hand over power in 1994 and brokered a cease-fire in Bosnia that helped pave the way for a future peace accord.

He gained an international reputation for his work promoting human rights, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

With Nelson Mandela, he founded The Elders, a group of global leaders committed to working for peace and human rights.

He also traveled extensively, even after his 90th birthday and worked building homes with the Habitat for Humanity charity.

But the former president has also battled a series of health problems in recent years.

In August 2015, Carter had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver.

The following year, he announced that he did not need further treatment, as the experimental drug had eliminated all traces of cancer.

He often expressed a striking calmness when discussing health challenges.

"I'm perfectly calm about everything that's going to happen," he said in 2015.

"I've had an exciting, adventurous and fulfilling life."

Carter celebrated his last birthday in October in Plains, the small Georgia town where he and his wife were born between World War I and the Great Depression, and where they returned when he left office.

A number of high-ranking US politicians - including Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock - sent messages of support to Carter.

"May he, Rosalyn and the entire Carter family be comforted by that peace and surrounded by our love and prayers," Warnock wrote on Twitter.


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