Dear Friends of Community Services:

This is a resolution that ADAPT activists are proposing that the NGA members vote on and pass while they are in Seattle for their national conference, July 17th-19th.

Over two million people with disabilities, old and young, with physical, mental and/or cognitive disabilities are warehoused in nursing homes and other institutions because of the lack of home and community services. ADAPT believes the AIGA and each individual Governor play an Integral part in the reforming of this institutionally biased long term care system.

The ADAPT- Community

[Heading] RESOLUTION
[Subheading] Commitment To Community-based Long Term Care Services and Support

WHEREAS millions of people with disabilities and older Americans currently need or will need long term services and supports to live in the community and this number is expected to grow at a rapid pace over the next three decades; and

WHEREAS the current long term care system is fragmented, overly medicalized, bureaucratic, expensive with an institutional bias that unnecessarily forces people with disabilities and older Americans in nursing homes and other institutions; and

WHEREAS the Supreme Court in the Olmstead vs. LC & EW decision ruled in 1999 that people have the right to services in the most integrated setting; and

WHEREAS the American public overwhelmingly supports long term care services and supports be provided in their own home and communities; and

WHEREAS the reform of the long term care (services and supports) system must be a cooperative partnership between the federal government, the states and the disability/older community,

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Tuesday 23 July 2013

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