University Dailv Kansan / Thursday, Januarv 17. 1991
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Markham starts hunger strike
Bv Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Freed Markham wants control over where he goes and when, and he plans a hunger strike until he has that freedom, he said yesterday at his Lawrence home.
Markham, 42, has cerebral palsy and needs the care of an attendant five hours a day, seven days a week. He needs help get up in the morning and starting his day, and in the evening an attendant helps him with dinner or cleaning. The rest of the time he cares for himself.
Fred Markham and his attendant announce his intention to fast.
Markham is eligible for 35 hours of care a week under the regulations of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The department pays attendants' salaries, and until a law was passed in the Kansas laws or Representatives, it scheduled the times attendants were to work.
The bill was designed to give disabled people more control over their lives, Markham said. It allows people with disabilities to schedule and instruct, schedule and fire them.
Independence Inc., a nonprofit organization in Lawrence, helps Markham with the paperwork involved with attendant care, said Edwina Boyd, the organization's business manager.
Attendants are hired by Markham and paid by Independence Inc. The organization then turns in claims to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which reimburses the company.
Markham is demanding that the department fire the people involved in what he terms interference with his life. He plans to start a hunger strike at noon today, during which he demands liquids, until his demands are met.
"Our role is to act as a payroll
manager and said." We consider
Fred an employee.
Markham's problem stems from an incident in which he went to see his mother in Hutchinson for three weeks. He had attendant care in Hutchinson and turned in his claim to Independence Inc. Last week, Markham received a letter from a case manager asking him to come up with him that he had to give 10 days notice before he took such trips in the future.
"I was really happy with the new program because I had control over my own life," Markham said, "I've worked very hard to get this to work."
gram, and it has been a success.
"And now for them to keep inter-
view him, he makes a mockery out of our leisure."
Boyd said the cost of attendant care services were the same when Markham stayed in Lawrence or was out of town.
The letter from the department stated that the claims from Markham's time in Hutchinson would be paid this time, but under the department's guidelines, the attendant care will be provided at the home of the client.
Markham's case manager could not be reached for comment
Lloyd Hall, a representative for the department in Topka, said the department could not comment until some involved had been contacted.
Markham said the guidelines the department was trying to apply to his case were not expressed in the House bill.
"They're applying other regulations from other programs to this program." he said.
Boyd said the intent of the law was to give disabled people more control in going where they want
Markham went on a hunger strike for six days in late 1989 in protest against the independent health care organization. The entire hunger strike was a last resort.
"It's no fun, but I have to do this," Markham said. "I talked to my caseworker yesterday, and I tried to get it worked out. All she told me was that it takes more higher people, and I've heard that so many times that I'm tired of it."
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