Jimmy Carter’s Family Announces Sad News Read more below 

According to grandson Jason Carter who spoke with Southern Living Magazine, the elderly Democrat struggles to wake up at all some days now that he is 16 months into hospice care in Plains,

Georgia The public, accustomed to seeing the former president teach Sunday school and assist in the building of homes well into his 90s, is now seeing a different side of his grandfather,

Jason said. He added that the death of his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in November has taken a toll.“After 77 years of marriage… I just think none of us really understand what it’s like for him right now,

” Jason told Southern Living earlier this month, People Magazine reported. “We have to embrace that fact, that there’s things about the spirit that you just can’t understand.”