Jimmy Carter Praised as Grandson Issues Health Update

Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving praise and messages of well wishes on social media after his grandson said he is "coming to the end."

Carter, 99, who has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history, entered hospice care at his home in Georgia in February 2023.

He "decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family" and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention," The Carter Center said at the time.

His grandson Jason Carter offered an update on Carter's health at a mental health forum named for his late grandmother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, on Tuesday.

He is "doing OK," Jason Carter said, according to CNN. "He has been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now, and he really is, I think, coming to the end that, as I've said before, there's a part of this faith journey that is so important to him, and there's a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very end and I think he has been there in that space."

Many then took to social media to praise Carter for his work as the nation's commander-in-chief and after leaving office.

Carter, a Democrat, served a single term as president after winning the 1976 election. His 1980 loss in a landslide to Ronald Reagan led to his decades of advocacy work for democracy, public health and human rights via The Carter Center. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

"President Carter made sure that we can rest in the shade of the trees he planted, and may he have rest eternal when it is his time," musician Joe Newberry wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "God bless this good man."

Paul Wartenberg, a writer and librarian, wrote: "President Carter, after leaving the White House, spent 40-plus years building homes and defending the right to vote. Arguably the greatest post-presidency any man ever lived."

Author Majid M. Padellan wrote that Carter is "an amazing human being, and a perfect example of how a former President should act."

Writer Jon Hutson wrote: "As our beloved elder and human rights advocate President Jimmy Carter nears his peaceful transition in hospice with his family, I remember that in the way he lived, he served as a model of faithfulness, compassion, and courage. Godspeed, sir."

Actress Nancy Lee Grahn wrote that "to part from this earth having lived it Jimmy Carter's way, must feel pretty damn good. Doubt he'll be coming around again.. When you get it this right... you graduate to higher realms."