Description: Chapter 3 describes the current situation in Mexico by which new workers must be a part of the mandated defined contribution plan. Older workers may opt to stay with the former defined benefit system. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: This article discusses the sources of the information in the Social Security Death Master File and the potential utility of this information for demographic studies of centenarians and near-centenarians.

Description: From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Expert discussion of two previous papers: Applying Mortality Models to Japan M. Ozeki, and The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited S.H. Li and W.S. Chan. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper identifies some of the special ERM considerations that a corporation which has employees who are members of a multi-employer pension plan, MEPP, should include in its ERM program. The focus of the paper is on the MEPP as an entity and tools to be used in its ERM. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: In order to better understand the finitude of life it must be divided into its four components: aging, longevity determination, age-associated disease and death. Age changes result from the increasing rate of biomolecular disorder that, after reproductive maturation, exceeds repair and turnover capacity. These are stochastic or chance events governed by entropy or the tendency for concentrated energy to disperse when unhindered.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. The U.S. retirement system has many defects that affect individuals’ ability to survive living to 100. This paper explores some of the problems that individuals face and recommends changes that could make the U.S. system work better.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. Using data from Social Security's Death Master File, this study shows that mortality deceleration in humans observed at advanced ages may be an artifact caused by age exaggeration, data heterogeneity or use of improper estimates of hazard rate. The phenomenon of mortality deceleration at older ages vanishes for datasets of higher data quality.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. The outcome of achieving a way to slow or stop the aging process in humans would have profound consequences that would affect virtually every human institution. In this paper, the author discusses the impact on human life if a means were found to slow the human aging process. It is the author’s belief that most of the consequences would not benefit either the individual or society.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for Concurrent Session 2A: Drivers of Future Mortality for the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.