Jimmy Carter ‘experiencing the world as best he can’ as he spends most days not awake – Washington Examiner

On Tuesday, Jimmy Carter’s grandson gave an update on the former president’s health, saying the family cherishes each waking moment with the 99-year-old as he slips deeper into a semi-cognizant state.

Jason Carter made the comments during an interview with Southern Living, telling the magazine that his grandfather is no longer awake every day during his family’s hospice visits.

Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter walk down Pennsylvania Avenue after Carter was sworn in as the nation’s 39th president on Jan. 20, 1977, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)

“[He’s] experiencing the world as best he can as he continues through this process,” the younger Carter said, adding that it’s impossible to predict what state the former president will be in during visits.

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The news comes after Jason Carter said his grandfather’s life was “coming to an end” in May. During a mental health forum, he commented that he was grateful for “the outpouring of love and support that we as a family [have] received.”

The country’s oldest living president has been in hospice care for 16 months. Jimmy Carter remains in the Plains, Georgia, home that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, built together in 1961. The former first lady died in November of last year. In recent years, Jimmy Carter has pulled through metastatic brain cancer, liver cancer, and brain surgery after a fall in 2019.