Former President Jimmy Carter turned quite a few heads last week when he made a surprise visit to the Plains Peanut Festival in Georgia. Carter, who turns 99 on Sunday, decided back in February 'to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care...
Former President Jimmy Carter turned quite a few heads last week when he made a surprise visit to the Plains Peanut Festival in Georgia.
“You don't have to be lying in a bed necessarily to be able to benefit from hospice,” Atkins said. “And I think it's wonderful that the Carters have made such a great example of people with such great dignity who make that decision in their life that they're ready to go, that they don't want to continue with further invasive treatment and they elect to go into hospice as a supportive system.
“Hospice is overwhelmingly in the United States delivered at a patient's home, like President Carter,” said Dr. Sean Morrison, chair of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. “The goal is to focus on improving the person's quality of life as they're dying or in the state of a terminal illness.”
Carter and his wife, who have been married 77 years, are “still holding hands,” grandson Josh Carter told the New York Times. “They still sit on the couch together, in the same place they’ve always sat.” A person can choose to enter hospice care if they have a terminal illness and a prognosis that they have six months or less to live, Atkins and Morrison said. Two doctors have to agree to that prognosis.
About 9% are heart patients, 8% are cancer patients, 6% are suffering from a respiratory disease, and 5% have had a stroke.
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