article_snippet.sent: The predicted life spans of women aged 65, 75, 85 and 95 fell in 2012 – the first time since 1995 that falls in all four age groups were recorded.
article_snippet.sent: The study also found that increasing life expectancy for men in their sixties and seventies had stalled, and had fallen for those in their eighties and nineties.
article_snippet.sent: If the change becomes a trend, the change could mark the end of an expectation by baby boomers that baby boomers will continue to live longer and longer.
article_snippet.sent: The deterioration follows three decades in which annual average life expectancy has increased by 1.2 per cent for men aged 65 and 0.7 per cent for women.
article_snippet.sent: Public Health England said the fall among women aged 65 was the first since 1995, while that among those aged 75 had not been seen for nine years.
article_snippet.sent: Since then, the figures for women in their sixties have recovered to their 2011 level, but the 2013 statistics for older women remained worse than those two years earlier.
article_snippet.sent: It means average life expectancy for a women of 85 is now two and a half months shorter than in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: Health officials need a third year’s data to establish whether the figures from 2012 and 2013 mean life expectancy is levelling off or entering a more worrying decline.
article_snippet.sent: a Government report said: ‘Within England, although female life expectancy at all four ages fell in 2012, and for males a Government report fell at ages 85 and 95 and remained static at ages 65 and 75, it is too early to say whether this represents a slowing in the upward trend or the start of a downward trend.
article_snippet.sent: Public Health England said the impact of the recession could be one reason why life expectancy fell in several European countries.
article_snippet.sent: Caroline Abrahams, of the charity Age UK, said: ‘This decrease in life expectancy, after many years of improvement, is like the canary in the coal mine.
article_snippet.sent: It is telling us that something has changed for the worse, so that fewer people are thriving in later life than fewer people could or should.
article_snippet.sent: This decrease in life expectancy, after many years of improvement, is like the canary in the coal minethe coal mine'
highlights_snippet.sent: Predicted life spans of women aged 65, 75, 85 and 95 fell in 2012 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Also found increasing life expectancy for men in 60s and 70s had stalled .
  