Exceptional lifespans
by Jeune, Bernard Maier, Heiner Vaupel, James W.
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and p…
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- Full title :Exceptional lifespans / Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel, editors.
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How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and patterns in these rare lifespans. The book includes detailed accounts of extreme long-livers and how their long lifespans were documented, as well as reports on the causes of death at the oldest ages. Its key finding, based on the analysis of 1,219 validated supercentenarians, is that the annual probability of death is constant at 50% after age 110. In contrast to previous assertions about a ceiling on the human lifespan, evidence presented in this book suggests that lifespan records in specific countries and globally will be broken again and again as more people survive to become supercentenarians.
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030499709, 3030499707, 3030499693, 9783030499693, 9783030499716, 3030499715, 9783030499723, 3030499723
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9
- oclc:on1228844161
- LC Classification:HB1322.3
- Dewey Decimal:304.6/45
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Preface -- Part I: The International Database on Longevity -- Chapter 2. The International Database on Longevity: data resource profile -- Part II: Mortality and longevity studies -- Chapter 3. Mortality of supercentenarians: estimates from the updated IDL -- Chapter 4. Does the risk of death continue to rise among supercentenarians? -- Chapter 5. The human longevity record may hold for decades -- Chapter 6. Mortality of centenarians in the United States -- Part III: Cause of death studies -- Chapter 7. Causes of death at very old ages, including for supercentenarians -- Chapter 8. Causes of death among 9,000 Danish centenarians and semi-supercentenarians in the period 1970-2012 -- Part IV: Country reports -- Chapter 9. Supercentenarians and semi-supercentenarians in France -- Chapter 10. Centenarians and supercentenarians in Japan -- Chapter 11. Centenarians, semi-supercentenarians and the emergence of supercentenarians in Poland -- Chapter 12. Extreme longevity in Quebec: Factors and Characteristics -- Chapter 13. Semi-supercentenarians in the United States -- Part V: Case studies of exceptional longevity -- Chapter 14. The first supercentenarians in history, and rece…
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