Supercentenarians
Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The Int...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2010.
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| Series: | Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I General: On the age validation of supercentenarians
- The International Database Longevity: Structure and contents
- Part II Country reports: Supercentenarians in the United States
- The emergence of supercentenarians in Canada
- Supercentenarians in Japan
- Being very old in a young country: Centenarians and supercentenarians in Australia
- Supercentenarians in France
- Italian supercentenarians: Age validation of deaths from 1969 to 2000
- Emergence and verification of supercentenarians in Spain
- Age validation of persons aged 105 and above in Germany
- The growth of high ages in England and Wales, 1635-2106
- Supercentenarians in the Nordic Countries
- Part III Research on supercentenarians: Human mortality beyond age 110
- Is it possible to measure life expectancy at 110 in France?- Age 115 or more in the United States: Fact or fiction?- Jeanne Calment and her successors. Biographical notes on the longest living humans.