ADAPT Talking Papers

ADAPT ATTENDANT SERVICES

FREE OUR PEOPLE

" I was in a nursing home for thirteen years. I had to fight to get out. It was the beginning of my life at 22." 
                                         - Claude Holcomb, ADAPT activist
" I believe that every individual has a right to personal assistance services." 
                                         - President Bill Clinton
"I strongly agree with ADAPT's position about the need for a national attendant services program of home and community based services." 
                                        - Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House
"Just try and honestly assess the situtation and realize that I myself and others don't need to be in nursing homes." 
                         - Larry McAfee, GA quadriplegic who legally won the
                           right to kill himself and then fought to live life 
                           on his own terms, but who even after his death still
                           had not won the right to live in his own home.
Attendant services are assistance with things like dressing, bathing eating, getting in and out of bed, helping with a check book or reminding someone to take a pill. Attendants work for a person with a disability, doing tasks that person can't do alone.