TY - BOOK AU - Maier,Heiner AU - Jeune,Bernard AU - Vaupel,James W. TI - Exceptional lifespans T2 - Demographic research monographs SN - 9783030499709 PY - 2021///] CY - Cham, Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Mortality KW - Forecasting KW - Statistical methods KW - Centenarians KW - Longevity KW - Electronic Books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 recent 115+-year-old supercentenarians; Chapter 15. Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, the first supercentenarian in history?; Chapter 16. Margaret Ann Harvey Neve - 110 years old in 1903. The first documented female supercentenarian; Chapter 17. 113 in 1928? Validation of Delina Filkins as the first "second-century teenager"; Chapter 18. Emma Morano - 117 years and 137 days; Chapter 19. A life cycle of extreme survival spanning three stages : Ana Vela Rubio (1901-2017); Chapter 20. Validation of 113-year old Israel Kristal as the world's oldest man; Chapter 21. Age verification of three Japanese supercentenarians who reached age 115; Chapter 22. Age 115+ in the USA : an update UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43277/1/2021_Book_ExceptionalLifespans.pdf ER -