Description: This paper attempts to gather information regarding various components of the Canadian retirement income system, and to quantify the impact on the system of unanticipated morality improvements, particularly at age 65 and over, and of lower than expected equity returns. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

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: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: Using Taiwan Complete Life Tables as the data source, a model is developed using reliability theory and the results of the proposed model are compared to Gompertz’s law.

Description: Discussion of paper presented at Living to 100 symposium January 2002. This is the reply to the discussion of author's paper.

Description: Discusses the various kinds of medical research being conducted that hold the promise of extending people's lives.

Description: This paper suggests that research is needed with better instruments to determine the maximum longevity in Mexico and the trend of life expectancies at all ages. This is essential if we want to know what the future might be, especially the near future, as it has been show by actuarial, economic, and social problems in pensions, and health-care schemes. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript from Session 5A: Mortality and Longevity Research from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2002. This paper is a first attempt to assess which group of mortality trajectories proposed by various researchers is confirmed by empirical data between the age of 110 and 115 years when the exponential trajectories on the one hand and the logistic or quadratic trajectories on the other hand have diverged sufficiently.

Description: This is the author's reply to Dr. Kingkade's discussion of the referenced paper. The author supplies written citations to old age and indicates he does not believe in any fixed limit to the human lifespan.