Nurturing Inclusion: A Good Practice Case Study from Stirling Health and Care Village

This reflective piece focuses on insights from lived experience of disablement provided by the Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA) group. It examines the importance of ensuring inclusion for disabled people within outdoor as well as indoor spaces.

Dr Dianne Theakstone outlines the work on improving the outdoor space, including accessibility, at the Stirling Health and Care Village, which involved the Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership team and around forty local partners to develop the grounds to enable patients, staff, visitors and the local community to utilise the estate, in order to improve health and wellbeing.

Benefits of engaging with nature are highlighted, both to health and social connectedness, as well as the reflections of the visiting ISPA group on the design of features of the outdoor space, as well as examples of how improved/enhanced inclusion can be achieved.