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[image caption] Tennessee ADAPT organizer and activist Diane Coleman helps block the entrance to an Orlando hotel where nursing home representatives are meeting.

[Headline] Tennessee activists travel to Orlando to protest institutionalizing of disabled

Members of ADAPT of Tennessee (Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), along with ADAPT activists from around the country, descended on Orlando, Florida, during the second week in October to protest the warehousing of many of their fellow disabled citizens in nursing homes.

The protests, at the hotel where the American Health Care Association was meeting, were held to call attention to the fact that, while millions of dollars are spent each year to institutionalize disabled people, almost nothing is spent to provide attendant services that could enable those people to stay at home in the community, with their families and friends.

More than 200 members of ADAPT blocked entrances to the hotel on several different occasions during the week, and many were arrested and jailed.

Inside, representatives of most of the nation's nursing homes met to learn how to run them better. Outside, activists insisted that if even one quarter of the money spent by Medicaid on nursing home care were re-channelled into attendant services, thousands of disabled people could be released from the homes' restrictive and often humiliating care.

For more information on the actions, or about ADAPT of Tennessee, contact Diane Olin at 1478 Stayton Road, Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee 37051 or call (615) 789-5236.

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Friday 12 July 2013

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