George H.W. Bush Falls, Breaks Bone in His Neck, Is Doing 'Fine'

George H.W. Bush, 41st and oldest living United States president, is doing "fine" after he broke a bone in his neck during a fall Wednesday at his Kennebunkport, Maine home.

Bush, 91, was hospitalized and in stable condition when CNN broadcast the news. His spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted that the former president will be in a neck brace for some time.

Bush was being treated at Portland's Maine Medical Center, where a children's hospital is named for his wife.

Bush, who has a form of Parkinson's disease that has forced him to use a motorized scooter for mobility, has suffered a few other recent health setbacks. He was hospitalized in Houston in December for about a week for treatment of shortness of breath.

He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same Houston hospital while being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues. He was discharged in January 2013 after a nearly two-month stay.

Republican Bush served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before he was elected president in 1988. After one term, highlighted by the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait, he lost to Democrat Bill Clinton amid voters' concerns about the economy.

Father of former President George W. Bush and 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush, George H.W. Bush was a naval aviator in World War II, shot down over the Pacific. He is a former U.S. ambassador to China and former CIA director.

Bush skydived on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House. He celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near Kennebunkport.