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.
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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.”
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
And every drug he might want.
He sold his soul back in 1976. Saten works in mysterious ways.
I vote for Wilson and Pierce. They really sucked. A lot more than Jimmah.
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.
Carter makes the top five worst presidents. Letting Iran fall has killed milllions of people, including plenty of American lives and treasure.
Clean livin’, is all.
Reads more like an inadvertent blessing for President Trump, the personification of the iconic Timex slogan.
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You just described hospice to a T.
He was the last DemoRat presidential candidate I supported however was very glad Reagan won in 1980.
Carter is responsible for the mess in Iran because he thought the Shah dissed him. The man was a coward and prideful.
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.
Maybe he’s not that sick and just likes the morphine.
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.
You are confusing totally incompetent with traitorously evil.
Struggling to avoid his final reward?
Oh. I thought you said you voted for Wilson and Pierce.
Dang - you are even older than the Peanut Man!
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?
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