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dc.contributor.authorMaier, Heiner
dc.contributor.authorJeune, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorVaupel, James W.
dc.contributor.editorMaier, Heiner
dc.contributor.editorJeune, Bernard
dc.contributor.editorVaupel, James W.
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-14T08:27:17Z
dc.date.available2020-12-14T08:27:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20201214_9783030499709_15
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43277
dc.description.abstractHow 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. ​
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDemographic Research Monographs
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBD Population and demographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSP Age groups and generations::JBSP4 Age groups: the elderlyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicineen_US
dc.subject.otherDemography
dc.subject.otherAging
dc.subject.otherInternal Medicine
dc.subject.otherAging Population
dc.subject.otherAgeing
dc.subject.otherPopulation and Demography
dc.subject.otherSupercentenarians
dc.subject.otherLongevity
dc.subject.otherOldest-old
dc.subject.otherMortality
dc.subject.otherAge validation
dc.subject.otheropen access
dc.subject.otherMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research
dc.subject.otherInternational Database on Longevity IDL
dc.subject.otherPopulation & demography
dc.subject.otherAge groups: the elderly
dc.subject.otherAge groups: adults
dc.subject.otherClinical & internal medicine
dc.titleExceptional Lifespans
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.imprintSpringer International Publishing
oapen.pages344


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