Thursday, April 30 / 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM   •   Sapphire Ballroom H

Session 68:
Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

Discussant: Kenneth C. Land, Duke University
Chair: Hui Zheng, Ohio State University

  1. Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Will Lead to Slower Population AgingWarren C. Sanderson, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY) ; Sergei Scherbov, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  2. The Cost of Living Longer: Projections of the Effects of Prospective Mortality Improvement on Economic Support Ratios for Fourteen More Advanced EconomiesNick Parr, Macquarie University ; Jackie Li, Curtin University ; Leonie Tickle, Macquarie University

  3. Mortality of Supercentenarians: Does It Grow with Age?Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago ; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago

  4. Extreme Longevity in the Past: Validation of Centenarians Who Died before WWIMichel Poulain, Tallinn University and Université Catholique de Louvain ; Dany Chambre, Independent Researcher ; Anne Herm, Tallinn University ; Gianni Pes, Università degli Studi di Sassari

Other sessions on Population and Aging