The niece of an Alzheimer's patient helped to jog a few memories for her uncle – and other sufferers of the condition – with a train ride around Bermuda.

This week is Alzheimer's Week and to mark it Darlene Diel arranged the train ride, with Oleander Cycles.

The tour ran through the Botanical Gardens along North Shore into Spanish Point, through to Front Street and back to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Her uncle is being cared for at the Alzheimer and Related Dementious Unit (ARDU) and Ms. Diel said: "Whenever I visit my uncle, Victor Flood, I always see the patients just sitting there looking out into space. I decided to do something different for them, something that could visually stimulate them."

She added: "They all seemed to have a great time. Some of them were able to vocally express their appreciation, some just smiled and some just sat there and stared. But I know they enjoyed themselves, and they were saying that they wanted to go again."

Ms Diel said: "When the train travelled along North Shore Road and by the Hamilton Princess, something triggered a memory because they were saying, 'I know where I am' and were able to recite the location."

ARDU Unit Nurse and Clinical Coordinator, Ms. Kathy Albuoy said: "In Bermuda between the ages of 65 and 80, one in 29 people suffer from the disease and over the age of 80 it's one in five."