Description: This paper is about the world's oldest-old population - those 80 years and older - and their life expectancy. It provides a few methods for extending the life tables to age 100 and beyond, and projects mortality patterns at very old ages.

Description: The abstract for the paper Increased Longevity and the Challenge of Determining qx at Extreme Ages, Part 1 - Bending and Ending the Mortality Table.

Description: This is a summary of some thought-provoking presentations at the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium, where the implications of greater longevity were discussed.

Description: Average life expectancy has increased throughout the ages, but can this life expectancy trend continue indefinitely? From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: This is the session transcript from Session 6A: Mortality Improvement Approaches from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 2B: Older-Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium 2002. Discussion on 'Living to Age 100 in Canada in 2000' by Doray and 'Oldest-Old Mortality Rates and the Gompertz Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Study Based on Four Countries' by Yue papers.

Description: The abstract for the paper IDL, the International Database on Longevity.

Description: This paper explores how mortality tables have been ended in the past addresses the question as to whether an ending rate of 1.000 is most appropriate. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Expert discussion. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.