Rural life ‘must include disabled people’

THOUSANDS of people are still being hidden away in old psychiatric wings of our hospitals as well as nursing homes and other care centres when they could be breathing new life into rural communities, a conference heard yesterday.

Planners who shape growth in our villages, towns and cities must try to include such people in our communities.

They shouldn't allow nursing homes to be built in the middle of nowhere, cutting residents and their staff off from the world.