{"id":176430,"date":"2025-10-03T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:08:07","slug":"how-heysham-golf-club-scheme-is-helping-people-with-dementia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176430\/","title":{"rendered":"How Heysham Golf Club scheme is helping people with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A woman living with dementia said she had never been tempted to play the sport until she was diagnosed with the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Vicki Atkinson, 75, from Morecambe, is among the players who have signed up to dementia-friendly golf sessions at Heysham Golf Club in Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The club is the first in the north-west of England to join forces with the charity &#8216;Fore&#8217; Get Me Not Golf to roll out the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t something that I thought I might enjoy, but absolutely enjoy it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman living with dementia said she had never been tempted to play the sport until she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-176430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}