Supercentenarians

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Maier, Heiner (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gampe, Jutta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jeune, Bernard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Robine, Jean-Marie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Vaupel, James W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Σειρά: Demographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Population.; Aging.; Demography.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Human Geography.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General
• On the age validation of supercentenarians
• The International Database on Longevity: Structure and contents
• 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
• 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.