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Jimmy Carter has spent over a year in hospice care. How has he defied the odds?
news.northeastern ^ | 03/12/2024 | Tanner Stening

Posted on 03/13/2024 7:56:07 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.northeastern.edu ...


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To: Jeff Chandler

Gerald Ford had the rinos of the era wrapped up against the upstart Regan.


41 posted on 03/13/2024 8:16:09 AM PDT by anton
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To: Jeff Chandler; anton

Must’ve meant Nixon (Ford)


42 posted on 03/13/2024 8:16:15 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Amnesty for draft dodgers (his first act); rampaging inflation; high unemployment; the Iran disaster; huge spikes in gas prices; the establishment of the federal Department of Education; among many other messes left by this incompetent man. I have no sympathy for him, don’t believe he was or is a good man (read some of the Secret Service accounts as to what a phony he was in private) and sadly, religion can act as an effective cloak for many things.


43 posted on 03/13/2024 8:16:19 AM PDT by laconic
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To: HIDEK6

Not confused, but yes, I guess you could have different categories of ‘worst’


44 posted on 03/13/2024 8:16:37 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: monkeyshine

Not morphine. Its Fentanyl.


45 posted on 03/13/2024 8:17:15 AM PDT by anton
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To: cornfedcowboy; Responsibility2nd

Gave away the Panama Canal


46 posted on 03/13/2024 8:18:34 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think it was the Billy Beer.


47 posted on 03/13/2024 8:19:01 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Arise and shine,and give God the glory!-A trail cook's morning call.)
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To: monkeyshine

Carter ran against Ford who beat Regan in the Primaries.At least that’s how I thought it was.


48 posted on 03/13/2024 8:20:22 AM PDT by anton
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To: DJ MacWoW

Carter is responsible for the mess in Iran because he thought the Shah dissed him. The man was a coward and prideful.


His extreme hatred of Israel even alienated his self-loathing Jewish staffers.


49 posted on 03/13/2024 8:21:09 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right. We’ve been checking into Hospice for our mother, but she would have to have documentation from her doctor stating that she has less than six months to live. She’s 99, but

The issue that started my MIL in Hospice was that every couple of weeks she was being transported to the hospital from her nursing home. The came a point where she had had enough, was ready to die, and said so. The doctor have her little hope. Enter Hospice.

She signed papers stating no more trips to the ER, and to opt out of some of her daily prescriptions. She improved! A Hospice nurse came 2x/week to check her vitals, etc.

That was back in 2013, and she died in 2015. I didn’t know what the laws were then.


50 posted on 03/13/2024 8:24:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

He did not give it away. He sold it. For $1.00

But seriously, this transfer was in the works since 1964. And the Senate ratified the transfer. Carter could not and did not act unilaterally.

And besides - who cares? Compared with all the atrocities our modern presidents commit - this is a Nothing Burger. Iran-Contra was a bigger scandal.


51 posted on 03/13/2024 8:24:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: MayflowerMadam

... she’s 99, but doing pretty well.


52 posted on 03/13/2024 8:25:13 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Post presidency Carter walked the walk with his generous and very low key non profit work, for those efforts I applaud and admire him.


53 posted on 03/13/2024 8:26:32 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: laconic

Absolutely! He’s also responsible for the Mental Health Systems Act that emptied mental hospitals because he wanted to “preserve their dignity”. Outrageous.


54 posted on 03/13/2024 8:27:22 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So he should have sent troops to Iran? Another Vietnam?


Iran returned the hostages immediately after Reagan took office. Can you understand that there are choices other than “another Vietnam” and leaving the hostages to rot?


55 posted on 03/13/2024 8:27:53 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: MayflowerMadam

Many people were and still are confused about hospice. They recoil at the thought that their loved ones should “go to a hospice to just die”.

Thankfully that ignorance is slowly fading away.


56 posted on 03/13/2024 8:27:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

Yup. Forgot that.


57 posted on 03/13/2024 8:28:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yes, they are so much better on the street and living in tents.


58 posted on 03/13/2024 8:28:26 AM PDT by anton
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To: Responsibility2nd

...oh... and Carter sent a military rescue mission. Remember the failed “Operation Eagle Claw?

Let’s simply admit Jimmy was just a sad, bitter, incompetent man who was in over his head.


59 posted on 03/13/2024 8:30:22 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Responsibility2nd

Carter’s presidency does look quite good compared to Clinton and Obama. He doesn’t even come off that bad compared to the Bushes.


60 posted on 03/13/2024 8:30:29 AM PDT by Angelino97
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