Carter Center CEO says ‘no significant change’ in Jimmy Carter’s condition: AJC

Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander said in an interview Wednesday that there has been “no significant change” in former President Jimmy Carter’s condition.

“It’s 15 months of hospice at this point, and he’s fully retired,” Alexander said on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Politically Georgia” podcast on Wednesday.

“There really hasn’t been a significant change. I mean, he’s always going to be one bad cold away from the end,” Alexander said. “He is under palliative care and there are palliative measures if he is in pain, but nothing more.”

Carter announced in February 2023 that he was entering hospice care, forgoing further medical interventions so he could spend more time with his family. At 99 years old, Carter is the oldest living US president.

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter died in November at age 96.

Alexander’s comments follow earlier comments from Jason Carter — the former president’s eldest grandson and chairman of the Carter Center’s Board of Trustees — at an annual mental health forum at the center on Tuesday.

“My grandfather is fine. He has been hospitalized, as you know, for almost a year and a half. And it really is, I think, coming to an end,” said Jason Carter at the event.

Jason Carter recounted the last time he saw his grandfather a few weeks ago, when they watched an Atlanta Braves baseball game together and discussed the former president’s well-being.

“I said, ‘Dad, you know, I can’t – people ask me how you are and I say I don’t know.’ And he said, ‘Well, I don’t know myself,’” said Jason Carter.

“So he’s still there,” Jason Carter continued.

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