Getting on: ‘Physical decline as the body aged used to be seen as inevitable, not any more.’ Illustration: Nate Kitch/Observer
Slow down, that used to be the mantra for middle age. The dread half-century reached, fiftysomethings were expected to take up less challenging physical activities – if they were physical at all. A gentle stroll around the golf course, perhaps, rewarded with a gin and tonic at the 19th hole; or membership of the local bowling club, blazered crown green rather than 10-pin.
