{"id":524152,"date":"2026-04-10T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:57:08","slug":"gloucestershire-dementia-cycling-session-brought-back-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524152\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire dementia cycling session &#8216;brought back memories&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Popham said &#8220;hopefully there&#8217;s a friendship group that you can make&#8221; going to the sessions, which he hopes will give people something to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The more people I&#8217;m speaking to in this space &#8211; the experts, the professors &#8211; this is something that everybody can do to keep dementia away,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if you&#8217;ve been diagnosed, it can definitely help and slow down the progression of the disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Care UK, exercise can boost strength, balance and coordination &#8211; all of which are affected by dementia &#8211; in patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said studies have shown that gentle exercise can slow down the progression of dementia symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popham said &#8220;hopefully there&#8217;s a friendship group that you can make&#8221; going to the sessions, which he hopes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-524152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524152","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=524152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}