Description: Paper examines discrepancies among various methods of counting centenarians, with enrollment records in Medicare Part B seeming to be the most reliable. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Discussion on Living to 100 General Session 2.

Description: This paper reviews available evidence about the compression of morbidity and the disability decline and discusses the context in which they occur: initial level of disability, initial value of life expectancy and trend in life expectancy.

Description: A multiway typology of measures of aging, longevity and superlongevity is presented, with measures classified as measures of aging and longevity, direct and indirect measures of aging and longevity, and measures based on population data, death statistics and life table functions.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper addresses the question of how socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, health status and health behaviors are associated with oldest-old mortality and survivorship among people who have survived to old age. Data comes from the 1990-91 National Health Interview Survey’s Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Supplement and the mortality follow-up through 2002. The results indicate that activity limitation and exercise status, in combination with education, play an important role in survival into ages between 65 and 85, but have a smaller effect on survival among the oldest-old population of 85+.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. This paper investigates dynamic properties of age trajectories of physiological indices and their effects on mortality risk and longevity using longitudinal data on more than 5,000 individuals collected in biannual examinations of the Framingham Heart Study original age group during about 50 subsequent years of follow up.

Description: Overview/Foreword by the 2017 Symposium Chair and Foreword by the 2020 Symposium Chair.

Description: This is the panel informal discussion transcript for Session 4C:Innovative Business Solutions to Respond to an Aging Society at 2017 Living to 100 Symposium.

Description: This is the General Session II panel transcript on Insights into Successful Aging from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: We describe our process of hand-curation of centenarian pedigrees and software that we developed for the automated construction of pedigrees.