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    6 months ago, he still had phone conversations, watched TV/listened to audiobooks, was still mentally lucid much of the time, and enjoyed lots of peanut-butter-ice-cream...

     

    Now.. he's basically little more than a zombie.

     

    Certainly, a lot more has changed than meets the eye... The only silver lining is that he is lasting way longer than expected.

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    https://archive.ph/JSM2x

    for records

     
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    When Carter wakes up, Lowden said, the former president still has the urge to serve. Carter regularly asks for updates of people in the community and at Maranatha Baptist Church, where Carter used to teach Sunday school. He regularly asks Lowden to pray, not just for him, but for his children and grandchildren as well.
    “Here is a man who loves his lord and savior and he loves his family,” Lowden said. “Somewhere in between, he is hanging on for both. To serve his lord until it is time to go home and serve and pray for his children.”
    Lowden tells a story of how as recently as last October, when the Israel–Hamas conflict began, Carter was looking for ways to help.
     
    “He was asking, ‘Do you think I need to go to D.C. and talk to someone?’” Lowden recalled. “It is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed. Someone still trying to figure out how they can serve. His servant heart is unreal.”

     

     
     
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    Jill Stuckey, the superintendent of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Park in Plains, visits with Jimmy Carter several times a week.
    This past Wednesday, on Valentine’s Day, she was getting a vegetable plate ready to deliver to the former president. Her roommate makes it, but Stuckey always takes credit for it, which she said Carter gets a big kick out of.

     

    Well, is he still even listening to audiobooks like he was doing last year?

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    Unexpected Months in Hospice Have Been 'Meaningful' to Jimmy Carter as He 'Comes to the End,' Grandson Says

    Jason Carter, grandson of the former president and chair of the Carter Center, opens up about his family's rollercoaster year — and how Jimmy's end-of-life care has turned into an unforeseen "blessing"

    When former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care back in February, his family expected the 98-year-old to only have "a matter of days" left, his grandson Jason Carter tells PEOPLE. Seven months later, the longest-living president is still watching baseball at home and enjoying time with the family that he and Rosalynn built.

    "These last several months have been surprising for all of us, but it's been a real blessing," Jason says. "Both because there's been so much additional time that we've all gotten to spend together, but also because it's given us this ability to reflect on our personal relationships and experience the outpouring from around the world for him and for [Rosalynn] and for them as a couple."

     
     

    And while the whole family has been moved hearing stories of how Jimmy touched others' lives, Jason notes that the former president himself feels grateful for the opportunity to glimpse at the legacy he'll soon leave behind.

     

    "My grandfather right now is really physically limited — he's coming to the end, as is obvious by the fact that he's been in hospice — and so in that way I think he's frustrated," Jason says. "But he also has been able to experience that level of love."

     

    Jason continues: "This is an important part of his faith journey, and it's one that you don't get to experience at any other time in your life except for the very end. And so in that way, I think this has been a really meaningful time for him, and it's been a really reflective time for him."

     

    While Jimmy finds spiritual strength in his latest journey, Rosalynn, 96, is facing her own health challenges — in May, the former first lady was diagnosed with dementia.

     

    "There are certainly days where my grandfather is sad that she's not participating in this reality in the same way as the rest of us, but they're still there," Jason explains. "There are a lot of different ways that [dementia] can manifest, and for her, it has manifested in such a happy and loving way, which is not surprising given the way she has lived her life and the joy that she's always felt. And so it's difficult, but it's the best possible case scenario really in that way."

     

    Despite their limitations, Jason says, "They are definitely still there for each other."

     

    "They are in love at home together and at peace with whatever comes. ... That love story that really defines their life continues to define it."

     
     

    Jason, in many ways, appears a successor to his grandparents' legacy.

     

    He chairs the Carter Center — the human rights organization that Jimmy and Rosalynn founded after leaving the White House — and followed in his grandfather's footsteps as both a Georgia state senator from 2010 to 2015 and the state's Democratic nominee for governor in 2014. He began his public service career in the Peace Corps on the advice of Jimmy.

     

    But Jason rebuffs being described that way, insisting that he's only one of countless individuals whose stories reflect the hard work of his grandparents. His exact words: "There's millions of successors."

     

     

     

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    A spokesperson the for Carters shares with PEOPLE that Rosalynn and Jimmy will enjoy a quiet day at their Plains, Georgia, residence with cupcakes and peanut butter ice cream to sweeten the festivities. Rosalynn will also release a few butterflies into her garden to commemorate the milestone occasion.

    cupcakes = ultraprocessed foods = BAD

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  22. Posted

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9388380/

     

    https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Ye_Ming

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    Some years after the Korean War, Ye married a woman (aged 94 in
    2022). The couple had four children: three daughters (the eldest aged 70
     in 2022), and a son. Their youngest daughter, Ye Fen [Chinese: 叶芬], was
     aged 60 in 2022; according to her, Ye has a frank personality, and is
    welcoming. She is his caregiver, as the health of her sister and her
    brother are bad. Around 2015, Ye became bedridden.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0953620519303553

    https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/top-tips-end-life-and-palliative-care-frailty-2022a100159d

     

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    https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/top-tips-end-life-and-palliative-care-frailty-2022a100159d

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458601/

    • Swallowing is often impaired in the later stages of frailty and dementia for reasons such as general weakness, poor positioning, and impaired neuromuscular mechanisms. Aspiration is common, and a wet cough or frequent chest infections should alert clinicians to this possibility.27 Changing the texture of fluids by adding thickeners to drinks and taking medication with yoghurt or jam can improve the situation considerably, as can ensuring that the individual is as upright as possible while eating, drinking, and taking medication. When a patient is known to have a swallowing problem, the use of straws and lidded beakers should be discouraged because they increase the risk of aspiration'
    • Identification is often through situational diagnosis combining clinical indicators indicating end of life need6 including:
      • Two or more unplanned hospital admissions in the past 6-12 months
      • Persistent and recurrent infections
      • Weight loss of 5-10% in the past 6 months
      • Multiple morbidity in addition to frailty
      • Combined frailty and dementia
      • Delirium
      • Exacerbation of falling
      • Rapidly rising frailty score
      • Escalating patient, family or service provider distress
      • Older person asking for palliative care support and/or withdrawal of active treatment
      • What is clear is that older people with frailty will have end of life needs that are often progressive in nature.7
         However, because the presentation of these needs can be sudden as well
        as incremental and unpredictable, the evident risk of deterioration
        should, across all care settings, be a trigger for end of life [care planning](https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/end-of-life-care-in-frailty-advance-care-planning)
         (see Figure). Identification and planning end-of-life care when
        recovery is not certain is a fundamental aspect of care for all older
        people with frailty, and should be clearly communicated, where
        appropriate, to the older person and their family.

     

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    https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fsimfish%2FU0lB7NdS2-.png?alt=media&token=2fc56ab2-1f8d-4a24-bb6c-34cc68b4feee

    Vo Nguyen Giap was also bedridden for years...

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  23. Posted

    None are you reading properly.

    A few months ago, they said "they thought he was near the end when was entering hospice", but then they were confident he would hit 99. That was when people outside his family could stlll see him.

    The prognosis now is much graver.

    Maybe he will oscillate in a more healthful direction (briefly) again, but I'm growing less confident of this "because he is older"

    https://manifold.markets/questions?s=score&f=all&q=jimmy+carter

    Given his importance and the amount of time he has spent in such extreme fraility while the world is watching, there's a good chance Jimmy Carter's health will uniquely be the one person's health people over the world will obsess the most over... until AGI...

    Whatever it is, his cause of death might just be "old age"...  But it could just be heart failure, like Hans Bethe, who barely hung on for so long til he died...

     

    His grandson either said "Jimmy really is sick" or "Jimmy is really sick". These two could mean very different things - it's unclear which he really said.

     

    And while he still has some time left, his viewcount has now surpassed all but The Queen, and Prince Phillip... https://forums.deathlist.net/forum/2-deathlist-forum/?sortby=views&sortdirection=desc

    Whatever it is, I'm gonna bring attention to https://www.crsociety.org/topic/18346-how-long-can-someone-live-with-very-severe-fraility-or-when-bedridden-relevant-bc-jimmy-carter/#comment-46326. It's surprising that no one here also reads.. longevity forums or rapamycin.news or crsociety.org....

    My time is better used on other things than this, but whatever, if I'm going to discuss end-of-life *once*, it better be here and then no-where-else (and [for childish reasons] it's unlikely I'll care about anyone as much in the rest of my life)

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    Unlike other famous 97-year olds, he can pass off as decades younger. He's proof that heart problems don't necessarily accelerate aging

     

     

    (that said, heart problems can still kill otherwise robust people in an instant. Like Richard Nixon, who was 81 but still in fine health until his stroke). Mahathir reminds me a lot of Richard Nixon at this point...

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