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Exceptional lifespans / Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel, editors

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Demographic research monographsPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
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  • 9783030499709
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Contents:
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
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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

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