Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old PopulationJean-Marie Robine, Eileen M. Crimmins, Shiro Horiuchi, Yi Zeng Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M03 21 - 442 páginas Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The rise was more spectacular in some countries: the life expectancy for Japanese women rose from 62 years to 86 years during the same period. Driven by this longevity extension, the population aged 80 and over in those countries has grown fivefold from 8.5 million in 1950 to 44.5 million in 2005. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics: they report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity such as evolution of lifespan of species, genetics of human longevity, reasons for the recent improvement in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of deaths among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age. |
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Demography and Evolution | 43 |
OldestOld Mortality in China | 87 |
Recent Trends in Life Expectancy and Rectangularisation of the Survival | 130 |
The Validation of Exceptional Male Longevity in Sardinia | 147 |
The Canadian Experience | 167 |
Validity and Comparability 191 | 189 |
AgeRelated Changes in | 215 |
Heritability | 237 |
Lessons from Research | 251 |
Social Class | 271 |
Mortality Differences by Sex among the OldestOld | 333 |
The Impact | 357 |
Marital Status and Family Support for the OldestOld in Great Britain 415 | 414 |
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