Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, enters hospice care at home

Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, enters hospice care at homeATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 years old is the longest-lived American president, has entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, a statement from The Carter Center confirmed Saturday. Jason Carter, the couple's grandson who now chairs The Carter Center governing board, said Saturday in a tweet that he “saw both of my grandparents yesterday. The Carter Center last year marked 40 years of promoting its human rights agenda. That's a staggering drop from when The Carter Center began leading the global eradication effort in 1986, when the parasitic disease infected 3.5 million people. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said often as he campaigned.