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024 7 _a10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2
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100 1 _aMaier, Heiner.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aSupercentenarians
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe, Bernard Jeune, Jean-Marie Robine, James W. Vaupel.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg,
_c2010.
300 _aXV, 323p. 104 illus., 52 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 1 _aDemographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
_x1613-5520
505 0 _aGeneral -- 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.
520 _aDoes 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 International Database on Longevity (IDL) is the result of this ongoing effort. The IDL contains exhaustive information on validated cases of supercentenarians (people 110 years and older) and allows unbiased estimates of mortality after age 110. The main finding is remarkable: human mortality after age 110 is flat at a probability of death of 50% per year. The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110. Several chapters include short accounts of specific supercentenarians that add life to demographic research.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aStatistics.
650 0 _aPopulation.
650 0 _aAging
_xResearch.
650 0 _aDemography.
650 0 _aHuman Geography.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aDemography.
650 2 4 _aAging.
650 2 4 _aPopulation Economics.
650 2 4 _aStatistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.
650 2 4 _aHuman Geography.
700 1 _aGampe, Jutta.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aJeune, Bernard.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aRobine, Jean-Marie.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aVaupel, James W.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642115196
830 0 _aDemographic Research Monographs, A series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
_x1613-5520
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2
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