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

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

[Vermont Lt]

When my mom entered hospice, I looked up the average stay: It was 19 days. She lasted 10.

I have an aunt who just went over a year as well. They have to come in every six months and re-evaluate her condition.

Hospice is not usually this long. But some people thrive with the extra “attention.”

[Responsibility2nd]

Google search says......

According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, over half of hospice patients are on service for 30 days or less. However, patients facing a terminal illness and their loved ones can receive care and support for six months or longer depending on the course of the illness.Mar 21, 2023

[anton]

And every drug he might want.

[Lockbar]

He sold his soul back in 1976. Saten works in mysterious ways.

[Vermont Lt]

I vote for Wilson and Pierce. They really sucked. A lot more than Jimmah.

[Responsibility2nd]

The best thing Hospice did for my mother was to remove the feeding tube that a Catholic hospital refused to do.

Hospice allowed my mother to pass peacefully away.

[cornfedcowboy]

Carter makes the top five worst presidents. Letting Iran fall has killed milllions of people, including plenty of American lives and treasure.

[VanShuyten]

Clean livin’, is all.

[Ezekiel]

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.

Reads more like an inadvertent blessing for President Trump, the personification of the iconic Timex slogan.

[Jeff Chandler]

1976. We were just pissed about Reagan

?

[Responsibility2nd]

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

You just described hospice to a T.

[tflabo]

He was the last DemoRat presidential candidate I supported however was very glad Reagan won in 1980.

[DJ MacWoW]

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

[Bobbyvotes]

Hospice doctors prescribe just as many meds as any other doctors. The difference is in extra care hospice provides AT HOME, which is a bonus in most family situations. They even come to home to bathe and clean a bed ridden patient, which is a difficult task for any elderly spouse.

[monkeyshine]

Maybe he’s not that sick and just likes the morphine.

[Magnum44]

Johnson was nasty. I was a bit young to remember him, but I am aware of him. I guess Carter sticks in my craw because I was in high school during his term and the combination of post VietNam malaise, the crippled economy and gas crisis, topped off with the Iranian hostages and Desert One left me having no doubt as to Carters naive incompetence, despite his submarine service. 80’ was my first presidential election and I was elated to have been able to vote for Reagan.

[HIDEK6]

You are confusing totally incompetent with traitorously evil.

[Cold_Red_Steel]

Struggling to avoid his final reward?

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh. I thought you said you voted for Wilson and Pierce.

Dang - you are even older than the Peanut Man!

[Responsibility2nd]

Carter makes the top five worst presidents. Letting Iran fall has killed milllions of people, including plenty of American lives and treasure.

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