Description: This paper examines past mortality trends and discusses how these trends may change over the next 75 years, thus influencing the growth of the elderly population. In addition, this paper describes the methods and assumptions used to project future mortality rates and presents results, including assumed annual rates of mortality reduction and projected life expectancies. As well, this paper discusses stochastic time-series methods that are used to help quantify the variability in the mortality rate projections.

Description: Discussion of Session 2A.

Description: This is one of eight essays from the collection: 2020 Living to 100 Essays.

Description: This is the Understanding Multimorbidites abstract authored by Sam Gutterman for Session 6B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: These are the Discussant Comments by Anna M. Rappaport for the Housing, Health and Social Support of the Elderly Session 4B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is the Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation After Retirement paper authored by Jesu´s-Adria´n A´ lvarez, Søren Kjærgaard, Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, James W. Vaupel for Session 1B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Two recent SOA research projects will be discussed. The first covers analysis of the drivers of mortality that shaped trends in US mortality. The second will look at using causes of death to predict future mortality improvements

Description: "Population Aging, Global Climate Change and Social Security – Sally Shen, Research Associate, Global Risk Institute, John A. Turner, Ph.D., Director, Pension PolicyClimate Change and Mortality Time for Actuaries to Pay Attention – Sam Gutterman. FSA, CERA, FCAS, FCA, HONFIA, MAAA"

Description: Discover an introduction to decomposing differences in life expectancy by age and cause of death. Take a look into demographic techniques that decompose life expectancies at birth and older ages into the portions contributed by later age groups and causes of death-. These have been in existence for some time and provide a convenient device for analyzing mortality change over time as well as differences between sexes, countries, and ethnic groups. The methods will be described and illustrated by spreadsheet examples.

Description: Discover the unique challenges and resilience of LGBTQ+ older adults as they navigate aging and retirement in this comprehensive review.