Connecticut
Home hospice care in the spotlight as former President Jimmy Carter turns 100
The vast majority of hospice patients choose to receive care at home, like 98-year-old Joan Prum of Connecticut — and former President Jimmy Carter.
This past spring, Joan Prum's advanced age and increasing frailty ushered in a new reality when she became a hospice patient.
"I thought that unless you were really infirm and bedridden, you wouldn't be a candidate for hospice, but it turns out not t... [2001 chars]