“They are still holding hands ... it's just amazing,” the former president’s grandson said Saturday.
are entering their “final chapter” together, their grandson said in a brief health update Saturday.
After a series of brief hospital stays in late 2022, the former governor of Georgia decided to forego medical treatment and enter hospice, The Carter Center in Atlanta announced in February. The 39th U.S. president, who served from 1977 to 1981, had dealt with repeated falls and several health crises in recent years, including an extended bout with metastatic melanoma in 2015, but did not say what had caused his recent hospital visits.People magazine. "He's just tired.
Since Carter began hospice care, “there’s always somebody” at the modest Plains, Georgia ranch house that the couple built in 1961, said Josh. “My grandparents have always been the entertainers," he said. "But now we're kind of the ones having to entertain. It’s different, it's just a different era."
The former first lady, whose dementia diagnosis was revealed in May, just celebrated her 96th birthday on Friday.
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