Description: Centenarians persons living to age 100 and over represent a population that could be useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases. This study explores whether people living to 100 and beyond were any different from their peers at their middle age 30 years in terms of their physical characteristics height and body build, occupation and marital status.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that separates mortality into component parts in order to analyze observed trends over time.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that derives a number of analytic results for GMDB ratchet options.

Description: The abstract for the paper Mortality at Advanced Aged in the United Kingdom.

Description: The abstract for the paper Makeham-Type Mortality Models.

Description: The abstract for the paper Living to 100 and Beyond: An Extreme Value Study

Description: This paper presents recent trends in obesity prevalence in significant population segments, including overall effects by age, gender and certain racial and ethnic groups, and discusses the ways in which obesity can influence mortality in each of these segments. It provides a synthesis of reported mortality experience relating to these behaviors by risk factors and diseases that will affect any mortality projection.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that shows that by modeling the time series of mortality rate changes rather than mortality rate levels, human mortality can be better modeled.