Ramblings - Series 16 - Episode 2

Clare Balding walks through the Wiltshire countryside with a Swindon based group of people with early onset dementia. Alzheimers and dementia are becoming increasingly prevalent in our ageing society, but the message this group is keen to portray is that a diagnosis doesn't mean the end of a happy or fulfilling life. They get together once a week to walk for several hours and find that walking not only stimulates the mind, but helps them overcome anxieties and problems to do with the loss confidence and self esteem that stem from having the disease. Clare joins the Forget Me Not group on one of their hikes and discovers a very lively group of people who share a lot of laughs along the way, even when they get lost in a field at the end of their walk. Clare walked a circular route from the village of Brinkworth in Wiltshire Map: OS Landranger 173 Swindon & Devizes Producer: Maggie Ayre.