Former President Jimmy Carter, the longest-living U.S. President in history, has entered home hospice care. On Saturday, The Carter Center announced that after undergoing a series of short hospital stays, the 98-year-old former president decided to remain at home with his family and receive hospice care, with the full support of his medical team and family.

A native to Plains, Georgia, former President Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential election after rising from a little-known one-term state governor. He largely won the South and Iowa's caucuses before his native region shifted to Republican support, in part due to his promise not to lie to the electorate.

Apart from his political career, Carter is best known for completing a term in the US Navy, founding the Carter Center and establishing a peanut farm. In 2015, he survived a cancer diagnosis, but later left the hospital in 2019 after a serious fall