Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will begin receiving hospice care in his home of Plains, Georgia. A statement released by The Carter Center on Saturday declared that after a series of brief hospital stays, Carter and his medical team chose for him to stay at home with his family and receive hospice care.

At the age of 98, Carter celebrated his last birthday in October 2020 with his family and friends in Plains. He has held strong in the face of adversity, fighting skin cancer in 2015 and suffering from a serious fall in 2019 that left him requiring stitches and surgery to relieve pressure on his brain.

The statement went on to say that he has the full support of his family and his medical team and asks for privacy during this time.

Social media was filled with love, memories, and salutes to President Carter’s legacy of growing democracy,