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Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4848-7

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Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics: they report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity such as evolution of lifespan of species, genetics of human longevity, reasons for the recent improvement in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of deaths among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law /Adult mortality / Ageing / Biology of longevity / Causes of death / Decline in mortality /Demography / Frailty / Gender / Indicators / Oldest old (centenarians) / Sex / Social Factors /Social Sciences / age / morbidity