Life expectancy falls for older UK women

Campaigners point finger at austerity as Public Health England report shows first decline across all age groups in nearly two decades

Cuts to social care may have contributed to a shock fall in life expectancy for older women, campaigners have said.

Life expectancies for women aged 65, 75, 85 and 95 all fell in 2012 compared with a year earlier, the first slip in all age groups in nearly two decades.