Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM to live in our homes, not nursing homes!"
Demonstration by people with disabilities at the Headquarters of the American Nurses Association's (ANA) organized by the advocacy group ADAPT.
Web Page adapt.org/freeourpeople/2014dc
Facebook facebook.com/NationalAdapt
Adapt's Press Release
ADAPT demands that the American Nurses Association issue a public statement that the ANA:
•supports the civil rights of people with disabilities -- including those who need assistance with health related tasks -- to live in their own homes and communities and not be forced into unwanted nursing facility or institutional placement;
•endorses modifying state laws to allow attendants to provide assistance with health related tasks such as catheterization, bowel and bladder routines, assistance with ventilators and administration of medication when performing community-based long term services and supports;
•recognizes the need for both exemption and delegation/assignment approaches for providing assistance with health related tasks to assure that people with disabilities can exercise the maximum control over their services while assuring that all people with disabilities can get the supports needed to live in the community;
•publicly urges policy makers and other organizations representing nurses to support initiatives that expand the availability of home and community based long term services and supports -- including the provision of assistance with health related tasks by attendants; and
•affirms that this position is not intended to undercut the role of nurses in acute care settings where the highest possible level of skill, training and judgment is required or other settings that are not home and community-based.
"DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM to live in our homes, not nursing homes!"
Demonstration by people with disabilities at the Headquarters of the American Nurses Association's (ANA) organized by the advocacy group ADAPT.
Web Page adapt.org/freeourpeople/2014dc
Facebook facebook.com/NationalAdapt
Adapt's Press Release
ADAPT demands that the American Nurses Association issue a public statement that the ANA:
•supports the civil rights of people with disabilities -- including those who need assistance with health related tasks -- to live in their own homes and communities and not be forced into unwanted nursing facility or institutional placement;
•endorses modifying state laws to allow attendants to provide assistance with health related tasks such as catheterization, bowel and bladder routines, assistance with ventilators and administration of medication when performing community-based long term services and supports;
•recognizes the need for both exemption and delegation/assignment approaches for providing assistance with health related tasks to assure that people with disabilities can exercise the maximum control over their services while assuring that all people with disabilities can get the supports needed to live in the community;
•publicly urges policy makers and other organizations representing nurses to support initiatives that expand the availability of home and community based long term services and supports -- including the provision of assistance with health related tasks by attendants; and
•affirms that this position is not intended to undercut the role of nurses in acute care settings where the highest possible level of skill, training and judgment is required or other settings that are not home and community-based.
