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Exceptional Lifespans

By James W. Vaupel , Heiner Maier , Bernard Jeune

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Springer
Year
2021
ISBN
9783030499693, 9783030499709
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15661997 bytes)
Series
Demographic Research Monographs
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VII, 344\336
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Social Sciences; Demography; Aging; Internal Medic

Description

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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