Planning and following a journey.

Hi Connie,
Sat nav devices aren't considered an 'aid' under PIP regulations.
Planning & Following journeys assesses the ability to get 'reliably ' from A to B. the journey could be 200 yards to the local shop, 20 miles into town, or 200 miles into London.

Firstly consider if you can plan a journey. If you can ask a friend use a map or use Google maps or sat nav, it is likely that you can do this. Hence no points for this. However if you have health conditions resulting in poor memory, poor sight, dyslexia etc then performing thus activity night not be 'reliable'- namely one or more of the following not being safe/not reaching an acceptable standard/not doing this within a reasonable time or being unable to repeat the activity as many times as reasonably required across the day all for the majority of days.
Anxiety or significant pain might indicate not reaching an acceptable standard.
Maybe the difficulty is that you need to be prompted. Come on its time to go out, its a nice day. Let's go etc etc. If so, why - why do you need prompting what does the prompting achieve? What happens when no one else is around? You will need to show that prompting helps you overcome overwhelming psychological distress.

There are 2 descriptors whereby you need to be accompanied or have an assistance dog or orientation aid -for familiar or unfamiliar journeys.
The orientation aid is a specialist device for those who have hearing or sight impairment. Could be a white stick or other specialist device.
If you are prone to falls, have epilepsy or poor sight or maybe have a lack of awareness of danger, or have panic attacks etc this may indicate a need to be accompanied to stay safe, get to the end of the journey correctly and to do this in a reasonable time and without becoming noticeably unwell.
Maybe familiar journeys can be made and are reasonably ok, but it's journeys to new places that cause problems.
Finally, there may be severe health problems that mean you can't go anywhere because it causes overwhelming psychological distress. Alternatively you might avoid going out to places due to the degree of psychological distress it causes.
Please note that the use of 'any journeys and similar expressions doesn't necessary mean 'none whatsoever.' You only have to consider the majority of days. An occasional visit to eg GP or even to the shop will not preclude benefit if either this isn't done 'reliably' or alternatively does not comprise the majority of days.
I hope this helps.
LL26