Jimmy Carter has spent over a year in hospice care. How has he defied the odds?

news.northeastern ^ | 03/12/2024 | Tanner Stening

[ChicagoConservative27]

Last month, former President Jimmy Carter marked one year in hospice. After entering end-of-life care in February 2023, he celebrated his 99th birthday and grieved the death of his wife of 77 years and former first lady, Rosalynn Carter.

Even then, Carter was able — with help — to attend her funeral.

Even at the end of life, the nation’s longest-living president — someone who “practically no one ever thought” would be elected president, writes the New York Times’ Peter Baker — is defying the odds.

According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 90% of patients who enter hospice care die within the first six months. Roughly 36% of patients die within a week of entering hospice.

End-of-life advocates and experts cite Carter’s stay in hospice as having a positive impact on the discourse surrounding end-of-life care — a medical service that Northeastern University experts say many people put off until it’s too late.

[Theodore R.]

Lester Maddox said Carter was the most dishonest man he ever met; Goldwater said the same of Nixon.

[shotgun]

Hierarchy of Healthcare in the federal gubmint IMHO:

1) Presidential
2) Supreme Court
3) US Senate
4) US House of Representatives
5) Federal Employees
6) US Military
7) VA

[Theodore R.]

He lost MD, GA, WV, HI, and MN.

[Cold_Red_Steel]

My mistake, in 84 Reagan took all but Minnesota and DC. In 1980 Carter took 6 states plus DC.

Has anyone else noticed a trend with DC?

[9YearLurker]

The hospice doctors apparently can refrain from jabbing their morphine needles into a former president. Who knew?

[subterfuge]

Carter couldn’t get elected as a Dem these days.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Who the crap wants to “defy the odds” in hospice? Yeah, lets rot away in hospice care for a dozen years “defying the odds”. That is not good or something to celebrate.

Dying sucks. Once you are actually dying, you want to die as fast as possible, not as slowly as possible.

[unclebankster]

Has anyone else noticed a trend with DC?

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The 23rd Amendment needs to be repealed.

[Luke21]

“But no one was pissed enough to vote for the Peanut Man.”

I was. I was eighteen and a Reagan Democrat. No way I was voting for Ford. Got the Gipper four years later.

[null and void]

Mom’s been in home hospice care for 14 months.

[Dr. Sivana]

Name three things he did that benefited the US and, or western civilization during or after his innocent and loving gutting of our intelligence.

1. Greatly loosened restrictions on home brewing.
2. Improved regulations on interstate trucking (remember when trucks had to have dozens of license plates?)
3. Signed the airline deregulation act

[Publius]

He also brought Harold Brown in from Cal Tech to run the Defense Department. Brown was the father of smart weaponry, and he permitted the US to get in on the ground floor.

[DPMD]

Hanging on so he can vote against Trump in November.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So he is responsible for people being drunk, planes falling out of the sky and trucks being way to heavy for the roads.

My question still stands.

[null and void]

anton ~ He just got the VIP nursing home experience with unlimited drugs and round the clock nursing for free.

Responsibility2nd ~ You just described hospice to a T.

Pretty close.

Hospice is not allowed to treat the condition that put one into hospice in the first place. Anything else, yes. Pain and comfort medication, yes. Injuries, yes. Pneumonia, yes. UTIs, yes. Bedsores and infections, yes. Unless it was the injuries, pneumonia, UTIs, bedsores, and/or infections that put them into hospice...

[Dr. Sivana]

So he is responsible for people being drunk,
planes falling out of the sky and
trucks being way too heavy for the roads.
My question still stands.

1. People were getting drunk during prohibition.
2. Planes fell from the sky with the same frequency before deregulation. Pilgrim Air PM203 in 1970 was a big deal in 1970 in my neck of the woods. Cause: Fuel exhaustion resulting from inadequate flight preparation and erroneous in-flight decisions by the pilot-in-command.
3. The heavier trucks actually came under Reagan, who approved the double and triple trailers. The "Motor Carrier Act of 1980" had nothing to do with truck weights, but with price controls and the cost of market entry.

My answer still stands.

[null and void]

Most people don’t live in hospice care long..morphine

Yeah. You shoulda seen how glum the hospice RN was when she dropped off the "comfort pack" - morphine and lorazapam.

She brightened right up after two weeks.

Still haven't gotten up the nerve to ask her how many of her patients 'passed away peacefully in their sleep' very shortly after their ever lovin' families got the comfort pack...

[RoseofTexas]

I had to sign the papers to put my young sister in hospice. She had suffered three strokes…two the week before the major one. She was intubated and given sedatives to control her trying to pull the tube out of her mouth. To this day, I feel incredibly bad to have put her in hospice. But the neurologist told me it was the best thing to do for her. But I’m wondering if she still could’ve made it through. Anyways, all these what IFs go through your head constantly. I miss her so much! 🥲 there are days I feel very very regretful. Her hospice stay was short.

[plain talk]

“I bet half this forum supported him in 76”

I considered voting for Carter but I believe in the end I voted for Ford. I am not positive as I went back and forth. Carter was a young peanut farmer from the South and I liked his smile. :-) But I was glad to see him go in 1980.

Anyway that’s ancient history. I wish him well now and hope he makes it to 100.

[bankwalker]

I supported him in 76 ... last ‘rat I ever voted for ...