Title: Disabled storm convention
by the New York Times
[handwritten: Denver Post 10/7/91]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Seeking to redirect federal money toward in-home care and away from nursing homes, more than 300 advocates for the disabled yesterday stormed a hotel in Orlando, Fla., where representatives of the nursing home industry are holding their annual convention.

The demonstrators, most of them in wheelchairs and many with severe disabilities, broke through police lines and blocked the entrance to the hotel for miore than an hour.

The hotel is the site of the annual convention of the American Health Care Association, the trade organization for the nation’s mursing homes.

Police arrested 50 protesters on charges of trespassing.

The demonstration was part of a campaign by American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, a militant group based in Denver.

Under the Medicaid program, the federal government annually pays nursing homes more than $20 billion. The group wants 25 per-cent of that money diverted to pay for personal attendants who would help severely disabled people take care of basic needs.

Officials of the American Health Care Association say that while they support the notion of more long-term care in the home, they believe that ADAPT’s demands are unrealistic.

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Friday 12 July 2013

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Friday 9 November 2018

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