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ADAPT Action Profiles

March 22, 2004

Will Fields Maryland ADAPT Baltimore, Maryland First National Action To Secretary Thompson Will wants to say: “I want to see an end to the bias toward nursing homes. I am busy trying to stay out of the nursing home.” About ADAPT Will says: “ADAPT has been trying to recruit me for a long time. They finally grew on me.” About the action at HHS: “I just hope it doesn’t start snowing.”

 

Agnes McCray Syracuse ADAPT Syracuse, New York Revitalized after 12 years “I believe the action today is very important. We are supposed to be going forward in America, not backward. We cannot protect other countries if we can’t take care of ourselves.” “We are too important to this society. Everybody counts in America; every voice is important.”

 

John Gladstone Austin ADAPT Austin, Texas “I would like to write a book about what I said last night, about what goes on in an nursing home. Most of society does not understand what goes on in the nursing home and why my friend Kenny would like to throw his life into a trashcan." "I wish to tell [Secretary] Thompson that it is imperative we pass MiCASSA because I don’t want to see any more people live a trashcan existence. Nursing homes strip away your personhood; you just give up; you don’t want to live anymore.”