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Source: People
Updated on June 11, 2024 11:44AM EDT
Jimmy Carter's life isn't how it once was, according to his grandson Jason Carter, but the former president's loved ones haven't stopped spending time with their 99-year-old patriarch. In an exclusive conversation with Southern Living, Jason opened up about the Carter family's experience caring for Jimmy 16 months into hospice care, and why the onetime commander-in-chief chose Plains, Ga., to spend his final days.
According to Jason, there has "really been no change" in Jimmy's health in recent months. But his baseline is much different in comparison to the active ex-president who the public saw building homes and teaching Sunday school well into his 90s. Since his once-inseparable wife, Rosalynn Carter, died in November at the age of 96, a piece of Jimmy has been missing.
After 77 years of marriage
I just think none of us really understand what its like for him right now, Jason told Southern Living in their early June conversation. We have to embrace that fact, that theres things about the spirit that you just cant understand.
Jason, 48, told the outlet that Jimmy is no longer awake every day at this point in his hospice journey. And when the 39th president's four children make their frequent visits, they can't predict the state their father will be in. "[He's] experiencing the world as best he can as he continues through this process," Jason said.
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