WASHINGTON (AP) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, after a series of short hospital stays.
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The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that Carter, 98, “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.”
WHAT IS HOSPICE CARE?
Hospice care is treatment designed to make patients comfortable and to reduce pain and suffering in their final days. It is usually home-based, but can also be provided in nursing homes, hospitals and hospice centers. It is reserved for those declared by two physicians to be terminally ill, with six months or less to live.
The average time spent in hospice is about three weeks, said Dr. Arif Kamal, chief patient officer at the American Cancer Society.
HOW ARE HOSPICE PATIENTS CARED FOR?
Care may include medicine, but only to reduce symptoms, not with the intent to cure any illness.
Patients are typically cared for by family members, with supervision from hospice doctors, nurses and social workers. Much of the focus is on making sure family caretakers feels supported, Kamal said.
The team “addresses everything from physical symptoms to emotional distress, helping think through logistics related to burials, wills and advanced care planning,” he said.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR HOSPICE CARE?
Under Medicare rules, patients may enroll in hospice if they meet certain criteria depending on their illness. For example, cancer patients must be unable to perform at least two usual activities of daily living without help, such as eating or dressing, with other challenges that may include evidence that the disease has spread widely and their health is declining despite treatment.
It is unclear what led to Carter’s decision to enter hospice care, but within the past several years he has been treated for metastatic skin cancer and for injuries from falls.
Modeled after U.K. programs, the hospice movement got its start in the United States in the late 1970s during Carter’s presidency.
Okay so I kind of feel like agreeing with everyone here….however.
Gotta remember, Carter brokered Israel’s peace with Egypt. Which then later led to peace with Jordan too.
Yea I know that both agreements aren’t that great. But a cold peace is still better than war.
So while holding my nose, gotta give him the credit where due.
Like a bad guest he’s over stayed his welcome
WHO cares??? He’s a rushah in 1994 the Palestinian demons were blowing up buses and killing yidden Israelis fought back heavily and the uprising was coming to a close THIS MAMZER TOLD THE ARABS DONT STOP TILL ISRAEL GIVES YOU WHAT YOU WANT
What is it?
One step closer to Gehennom
Let’s hope the evil Jew hater lives as long as needed to get whatever reward he deserves here for whatever good he has done, so he can get his eternal punishment when he does.
Rav Yitzchok Zilber, zecher tzaddik v’kodosh livrocho, said that when he heard Stalin was ill, he davened non-stop for him to die. That saved innumerable Yidden from the infamous Doctors’ Plot.
lets hope he goes to where he belongs in Gehenom very soon. Will Aguda put out a statement like they did when the chinese spy stole the election praising him?
Carter is the biggest loser in modern day history. An incubment president lost 49 states in his reelection. Unprecedented. Him and his cardgin were the laughing stock of the town. he would lecture us to turn down the heat and wear sweaters where there was no oil. he also created the monster called the Aytollah and then had Iran laugh at us with the hostages till the day regean got in. Yet he is a hero by the left!. Its laughable