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Everything Chip Carter, son of Jimmy & Rosalynn, said during tribute service in Atlanta

“It has shed hospice in a new light, and it’s raised questions” for people to learn more. Atlanta (AP) ― Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most. ATLANTA — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most. Novas said Jimmy Carter has proven those distinctions with his public announcements and, in November, his determination to attend Rosalynn Carter’s funeral, physically diminished, reclined in a wheelchair, his legs covered in a blanket.

“I will always love my mother. I will cherish how she and dad raised their children. They’ve given us such a great example of how a couple should relate. Here is the full transcription of what James Earl “Chip” Carter III said about his mother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, during a memorial service Tuesday in Atlanta at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the campus at Emory University. Hospice can elicit images of “someone doped up and bedridden,” but it is not “just providing enough morphine to make it through the end,” said Mollie Gurian, the vice president of Leading Age, a national network of more than 5,000 nonprofit elder-care agencies.

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Tributes began Monday in the Carters’ native Sumter County and continued at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta. Her funeral and burial are planned for Wednesday in her small hometown. Tributes began Monday in the Carters’ native Sumter County and continued at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta. In 2021, the average stay of hospice patients who died was 92 days, MedPAC calculated. The median was 17 days — about two weeks longer than the time between when the Carters’ announced the former first lady had entered hospice and when she died. For-profit businesses or nonprofit agencies typically provide the care and employ the providers.

Rosalynn Carter’s funeral will take place Wednesday in Plains, with an invitation-only service at Maranatha Baptist Church, where the Carters have been members since returning to Georgia after his presidency. She will be buried after a private graveside service on a plot the couple will share, visible from the front porch of the home they built before Jimmy Carter’s first political campaign in 1962. “She was so down to earth, y’all, it was amazing,” Jason Carter said as he shared family stories, including the time when his grandmother made pimento sandwiches and handed them out on a Delta flight. The pews filled with political power players, but front and center were her children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren — all surrounding Jimmy Carter, her partner of 77 years. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, the Carters’ longtime friends, joined them in the front row, along with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the other living former first ladies, Melania Trump, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush.

She loved it, every time he would go on a campaign trip or during the legislative session she was really pleased to be in the office and be t e boss. She told me that when dad started running for president that the thing that she enjoyed the most were the people that she met across the country. And from working in Carter’s Warehouse she said I was able to speak the language and prices and yields and relate to everyday issues and farm families – especially in Iowa. Separately, Gurian said Leading Age would like Congress to increase hospice payments structures so more agencies might admit patients and still cover certain treatments they now typically forgo. For example, she said some cancer patients could ratchet down cancer treatments as part of pain management rather than give up treatment altogether and advance more rapidly to heavy drugs like morphine that eliminate quality of life. She told me that her adventures had led her to more than 120 countries.

1. “A couple of years ago, mom and I were talking when she said that dad asked her to marry her for the second time, she said yes. But she expected him to provide for her a life of adventure. He told her that it would happen.
2. Though the president didn’t speak at the service, he and his wife “shared a private moment” with Jimmy Carter beforehand, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
3. ATLANTA — Family, friends and dignitaries are all gathered in Atlanta Tuesday for the tribute services for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
4. “President Carter continues to be at home with his family,” the statement said.
5. Mom said when it was decided they would leave the Navy and return to Plains she was upset, and the family story is they rode in a car from Connecticut to Plains, Georgia and when mom had something to say to dad she would say – Jack, would you tell your father.
6. Jimmy Carter, who is 10 months into home hospice care, watched from his wheelchair, reclining and covered by a blanket featuring his wife’s face.

But she was then able to speak with authority on issues across our country and the world. She would often try and often fail to get dad to do what was right politically, and when she couldn’t change dad’s mind she would repeat to herself – a leader takes people where they want to go, a great leader takes people where they need to go. My mother was the glue that held our family together through the ups and the downs and thicks and thins of our family’s politics.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff paid their respects, as did Georgia’s U.S. senators and Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife, Marty. More than 1,000 people, including a sizeable contingent of Secret Service agents, filled the sanctuary. Former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush were invited but did not attend. She said hospice has seen an uptick in patients with dementia, conditions in which “a patient can wax and wane for months or even years.” Another factor — one she said could explain Jimmy Carter’s endurance — is sheer grit. I will always love my mother, I will cherish how she and dad raised their children, they’ve given us such a great example of how a couple should relate. In the White House, mom asked dad so many questions that he finally said that she should attend cabinet meetings, so she did.

On Feb. 18, 2023, the Carter Center announced the 39th President of the United States “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” About 10% of enrollees who die in hospice care stayed more than 264 days. In 2021, $13.6 billion of the overall $23 billion paid was for stays exceeding 180 days before death. In 2021, 1.7 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in hospice at a taxpayer cost of $23.1 billion, according to the federal Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Almost half of Medicare patients who died that year did so under hospice care.

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“My mother was the glue that held our family together through the ups and downs and thicks and thins of our family’s politics,” Chip Carter said. Some agencies might allow someone with end-stage kidney disease to get dialysis or take regulatory medication. They simply have to absorb the cost, because Medicare almost certainly does not pay separately for those treatments. Initial eligibility requires a physician’s certification of a terminal condition, with the expectation that a person will not live longer than six months; there are also disease-specific parameters. The Carter family released a statement ahead of Sunday, the one-year anniversary of their announcement that the 39th president would forgo future hospital stays and enter end-of-life care at home in Plains.

Rosalynn Carter, who died in November, about six months after the Carter family disclosed her dementia diagnosis, lived only a few days under hospice supervision, with her frail husband at her bedside. ATLANTA (AP) — Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in south Georgia one year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday, enjoyed tributes to his legacy and lost his wife of 77 years. Losing the election in 1980 was devastating to us all, my parents were still young, my mom only 53, and they knew they still had more to contribute.

She had probably more adventures than anyone else on earth, mom was always fun to be with… The Halloween before the pandemic, mom showed up at Amy’s house. Amy lives on a street which closes down on Halloween, and every house is decorated. Mom was beautifully dressed as a monarch butterfly – the Secret Service were dressed casually, but perfectly, as Secret Service agents.

Navy spokesmen in Washington also confirmed the report and said Mr. Carter’s son, a veteran of the Vietnam War, had been one of 58 young naval students caught smoking marijuana at a nuclear power training site in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and was discharged shortly thereafter. “Let me finish by saying that my mother, Rosalynn Carter, was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. And pretty to look at, too. “Although there’s always another drug out there or another operation or some more radiation. They may be tired, and they’re ready to be at home. They may want to do something as simple as go to the beach. They may want to go fishing,” she explained. According to the latest data from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, over 1.7 million people were enrolled in hospice in 2021, which now includes former President Jimmy Carter. Twelve months and a beautiful birthday celebration later, he remains solid.