Description: With improved global mortality confirmed, the question becomes: What adjustments do actuaries need to make? This article answers that and other questions related to mortality improvements.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which the author writes was suggested by Solomon Goldfinger’s study of A Stationary Population Problem in the Bible.

Description: This paper deals with the level and age trajectory of mortality at advanced ages in Canada, based on population data.

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.

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.