Bill.Scarborough@p0.f4.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Scarborough) (08/11/90)
Index Number: 9724
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Attendant Services
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Now ADAPT is ready to begin working to reverse another injustice.
Countless thousands of people with disabilities are locked away in
institutions, nursing homes, or trapped at home without options.
For thousands of others, the fear of being placed in a nursing home
or other institution is an everyday reality. More and more of our
people are choosing to die rather than exist in an institution.
- 9.6 million persons require assistance from another person
to accomplish everyday tasks. (Source: World Institute on Disability.)
- In 1987, $41.6 billion was spent on nursing homes.
Almost $18 billion of that was public money.
ADAPT is tired of hearing about our "right to die." IT'S TIME
TO TALK ABOUT OUR RIGHT TO LIVE AS WE CHOOSE.
To realize the American promise of freedom and justice for all,
ADAPT demands that the federal government acknowledge our civil and
human right to attendant services that meet our daily needs in the
location and manner of CHOICE, and adopt national policies and funding
mechanisms to make that right a reality.
ADAPT's opening actions to achieve a fair and just federal
attendant services policy will be in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is the home of the "Cadillac Man" who has told Larry McAfee
that attendant services are "Cadillac care, and incarcerated
Larry McAfee in nursing home after nursing home.
ADAPT has demanded a meeting with Louis Sullivan,
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, who has the power
to stop forcing disabled people to live as POLITICAL PRISONERS.
ADAPT will be arriving September 29 and departing October 4,
1990. For more information, contact:
Mark Johnson (404) 355-3140
Bob Kafka or Stephanie Thomas (512) 482-8543
Mike Auberger or Wade Blank (303) 936-1110
Diane Coleman (615) 876-6727
* * * * * * * LET OUR PEOPLE GO * * * * * * *
ADAPT of Texas
1208 Marshall Lane
Austin, Texas 78703
(512) 482-8543
ADAPT'S DEMAND FOR A
NATIONAL ATTENDANT SERVICES PROGRAM
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We have a civil and human right to dependable attendant
services that meet our daily needs in the location and manner
of our choice. Access to these services must meet the following
minimum standards:
1. Available based on functional needs, not medical diagnosis or
type of disability.
2. Available regardless of age or family status.
3. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with provisions for
back-up and emergency services.
4. Enabling people with disabilities to have maximum control.
5. Allowing people with disabilities choice to receive funds
directly or through agency service provider.
6. Available on a cost-sharing basis when appropriate, so that
services are not a disincentive to employment.
The federal government must develop, in cooperation with
ADAPT, national policies and funding to provide attendant services
to people with disabilities that meet these basic standards.
* * * * American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today * * * *
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Internet: Bill.Scarborough@p0.f4.n382.z1.fidonet.orgGreg.Wick@p0.f5.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Wick) (08/21/90)
Index Number: 9915
Just asking about the message on atendents. are you saying the
government is going to have to start paying for atendents for people. I
need a 24 hour aide but can barely aford one.
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