Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.
Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.
But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.
And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.
Eyyyy lets go Jimmy!!
I was about to be real sad seeing his picture and reading the first 5 words of the headline, but the last two really made my day. I feel like no one makes it past like 3 weeks in hospice care, but he’s still going
Actually there’s a recent John Oliver about hospice where they reveal that it’s often a very scummy business that sometimes “cares” for people for years who didn’t even need it at all. Tangentially related, but you made me think of it :)
I work in healthcare, you’d be surprised how many people start to drastically improve with good hospice care. It’s more common than you’d expect
oh really? I didn’t know that
Especially if said hospice care is fraudulent!
(Not the majority of hospice, but it happens. Last Week Tonight did a piece on it.)