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[image caption] Members of the disability rights group ADAPT call for change at the Democratic National Headquarters in November.

[text begins] Both political parties agreed to develop position papers on the issue of what ADAPT calls "institutional bias in long term care" and to allow members of ADAPT to address platform committees, and possibly party delegates, at upcoming presidential conventions.

By the end of this month, ADAPT representatives also plan to meet with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala to urge a study of how to fix the "institutional bias," says Stephanie Thomas, a national organizer for ADAPT.

By Bridget Demouy

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Thursday 18 July 2013

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Friday 6 December 2019

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