Former President Jimmy Carter lived to 100 with hospice care. Why it may help some live longer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Hospice is very appropriate for the last months of life, rather than days of life."The average lifetime length of time that a person on Medicare spent in hospice care in the U.S. in 2022 before dying was 95 days, according to the NHPCO report.
50% : "Deciding to stop anti-cancer treatments is difficult and may feel like choosing between quantity or quality of life," Dr. Andrew Lawton, a palliative medicine physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told ABC News.
28% : "Hospice care misconceptionsOver the past five years, only 50% of Medicare beneficiaries died while receiving hospice care, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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