Living as good a later life as possible is a definite aim of the older people who have gathered on a chilly November morning to walk, talk and play carpet bowls in Stockton’s beautiful Ropner park in north-east England.
But there are challenges. The regular Age UK walk and talk is taking place in a council ward that has the unenviable statistic of being a place with the lowest life expectancy for women in England (71.8 years).
