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The speed at which England’s oldest adults became frailer accelerated during the UK government’s era of austerity politics in the 2010s, particularly those aged 85 and older, a study has found. After many years of steady growth, increases in life expectancy in the UK have stalled since 2014 and fallen for some groups. Previous research has made a link between this pattern and austerity policies implemented as a response to the financial crisis of 2008-09. Although NHS spending has been less affected, there were real term public spending cuts on welfare, local government funding, and social care as the coalition government introduced a period of “austerity” in 2010. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Care Research Centre analysed data from 16 410 people in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a nationally representative sample of the English population aged …

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