carter receiving hospice care in his georgia home after a series of health battles. the former peanut farmer turned u.s. president is 98 years old. carter s four years in office from 1977 to 1981 are only part of his incredible story. for decades he s been a champion for world peace eventually winning the nobel peace prize in 2002. isabella rosales is in his hometown. is there any indication of how the former president is doing today? reporter: paula, the family is requesting privacy so we re not really getting an indication as to the extent of his health condition. we have a statement from the carter center which he founded. here is a statement. quote, after a vears of short hospital stays former u.s. president jimmy carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive
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in his georgia home. though former peanut farmer turned politician is 98 years old. his family says he opted for in-home care after a series of short hospital stays. cnn s isabel rosales is in carter s hometown, plains, georgia. what more do we know about carter s condition at this time? we wish we had more information to tell, but the family understandably is asking for privacy at this time, paula. we do have, however, a statement from the carter center in which they say, quote, after a series of short hospital stays, former u.s. president jimmy carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. he has the full support of his family and his medical team. paula, right now, i am on main street here in his hometown of plains, georgia, and it s just incredible, whichever way you turn, 360, there is jimmy carter
visited with his grandparents yesterday in plains. he tweets this. i saw both of my grandparents yesterday. they re at peace, and as always, their home is full of love. thank you for all of your kind words. as i m talking to you, former advisers to the carter family, they re really keeping a close hold on his impact held condition. instead, they are choosing to talk about his life, really his extraordinary legacy from peanut farmer to the presidency, and it was really the post presidency, the last half century nearly of his work that has been so extraordinary, and he s been a sunday schoolteacher, a parade of people we re seeing right here now, his plains, georgia, church. he s greeting visitors, something he always did, if he was on an airplane, he was known to be shaking hands with passengers up and down the aisle. he taught sunday school, built homes for habitat for humanity, particularly in the wake of hurricane katrina. i certainly remember that well. clearly now, president biden,
is running for what? for what? running, i m running for president. jimmy carter. i don t know who he is. one of us one of common people. jimmy carter grow grew up in a small town in the south, george, became a peanut farmer and from georgia he basically started his pillow ascend. the idea that somebody from that region could aspire to that kind of office people didn t try c yesterday about 50,000 democrats in iowa met in caucuses, former georgia jimmy carter did extremely well. the iowa caucus was something nobody paid attention to but carter and his team said if we go and win the media will treat