Description: The absract for the paper Increased Longevity and the Challenge of Determining qx at Extreme Ages, Part 2 - Coping with Longevity: The New German Annuity Valuation Table DAV 2004 R.

Description: This paper addresses some of the issues arising from the combination of lower birth rates and increasing life expectancy, which have become more pronounced over the past 40 years in Canada and many other countries, too. The paper examines the effect of a gradual increase in retirement ages in order to attempt to maintain the “senior dependency ratio” at or close to its current level.

Description: The paper gives an overview of the data that are available and discusses the problems encountered in estimating mortality rates at old ages in the UK. It describes some of the methodologies used to construct mortality rates at advanced ages for official life tables and recent work undertaken by the UK Government Actuary’s Department to construct a database of historical mortality rates for the United Kingdom going back to 1961. Mortality tables for ages 85 and above are provided for years 1961 - 2000 by gender. Finally, possible methods for projecting mortality at advanced ages are discussed.

Description: Discussion of three papers presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium. Papers discussed: 'Morality at Advanced Ages' by Virga, 'Factors Affecting Mortality in a Small Sample of Older Adults' by Jones, Kwon, Paterson, Cunningham, and Kovai, and 'Detection and Significance of Frailty in Elderly Insurance Applicants' by Pokorski. The first paper develops mortality tables from retired federal employee data.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium in January 2002. Discusses the impact of longer life spans on families, business, society, and programs to help support the elderly.

Description: Paper presented at Living to 100 symposium January 2002. Study describes the increase in life expectancy at birth in Japan, the emergence of centenarians, the trends in the number of deaths of centenarians, and the increase in maximum reported age at death. Death rates above the age of 100 in Japan since 1963 are computed and analyzed. This study completes and updates results presented in a previous study Robine and Saito, 200X.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2002. This paper proposes a standard operating procedure for testing the Gompertz assumption using yearly age-specific mortality data, and the impacts of the data collection period and population sizes on the testing results are discussed.

Description: Discussion resulting from presentation of Held's Plastic Omega paper at the Living to 100 and Beyond symposium, Session 1. This is Held's response to Jay Olshansky's comments regarding his paper, which discussed research on the aging process.

Description: The abstract for the paper Data Sources, Quality and Analyses - Number of Centenarians in the United States 1/1/1990, 1/1/2000, and 1/1/2010 Based on Improved Medicare Data.

Description: Experts' discussion of data sources, quality, and analysis. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.