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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.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.”


21 posted on 03/13/2024 8:07:46 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

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


22 posted on 03/13/2024 8:07:50 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: usafa92

And every drug he might want.


23 posted on 03/13/2024 8:07:53 AM PDT by anton
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


24 posted on 03/13/2024 8:08:36 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

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


25 posted on 03/13/2024 8:09:19 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vigilanteman

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.


26 posted on 03/13/2024 8:09:27 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: Responsibility2nd

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


27 posted on 03/13/2024 8:09:34 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clean livin’, is all.


28 posted on 03/13/2024 8:09:51 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
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.

29 posted on 03/13/2024 8:10:06 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: anton
1976. We were just pissed about Reagan

?

30 posted on 03/13/2024 8:10:49 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: anton
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.

31 posted on 03/13/2024 8:10:56 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: wardaddy

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


32 posted on 03/13/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Magnum44

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


33 posted on 03/13/2024 8:11:15 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Vigilanteman

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.


34 posted on 03/13/2024 8:12:56 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever in November. If he loses in 2024, country is finished.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


35 posted on 03/13/2024 8:13:09 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


36 posted on 03/13/2024 8:13:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

You are confusing totally incompetent with traitorously evil.


37 posted on 03/13/2024 8:13:24 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Struggling to avoid his final reward?


38 posted on 03/13/2024 8:13:50 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Vermont Lt

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

Dang - you are even older than the Peanut Man!


39 posted on 03/13/2024 8:14:20 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: cornfedcowboy

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?

40 posted on 03/13/2024 8:15:48 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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