The former president of the United States Jimmy Carter, 98 years old, He has begun receiving palliative care at home after a series of recent hospital admissions, his NGO The Carter Center said on Saturday.
“After a series of short hospital stays, former President Jimmy Carter decided this Saturday to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive palliative care instead of more medical interventions,” the organization said.
Carter is the longest-serving former president in US history, at 98, four years older than the former Republican president. George HW Bush (1989-1993) when he passed away in November 2018.
The former president, who in 2002 obtained the Nobel Peace Prize Thanks to his humanitarian work, he has remained extraordinarily active despite his age and has promoted numerous initiatives of the non-governmental organization that bears his name and which he created in 1982 with his wife.
His presidential term only lasted four years mainly due to the impact of the 1979 US hostage crisis in Iran, and although most conservatives continue to criticize its handling, the Democratic leader has continued influence political life of the country in a progressive perspective.
From the Carter Center, he has spearheaded advances in election observation, human rights and public health around the world, and has written nearly 20 books since leaving the White House, as well as giving catechism every week at a Baptist church in his hometown.
Carter’s apparent iron health faltered in 2015 when he announced that he had four brain tumorsbut after six months of radiation therapy and experimental drugs, he ensured that he had successfully completed his cancer treatment.
However In November 2019, he had to undergo surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain caused by a subdural hematoma resulting from some falls he had recently had.
And it is that the former president suffered three falls in the last months of that 2019: one occurred at the end of October in his home in his hometown of Plains (Georgia) and caused a small fracture of the pelvis, from which he recovered without complications and left the hospital after a few days.
Earlier, also in October, Carter fell and doctors had to stitch his eyebrow; while, in May, the former president broke his hip, again at home, and had to undergo another surgery.
Source: EFE
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