Description: This paper addresses issues and techniques for advanced age mortality study using data mining techniques, a new technology on the horizon with great actuarial potential. Seven factors were considered in this study, the influences of these factors on advanced-age mortality distribution were identified and models were derived for projecting advanced age mortality.

Description: This article discusses how understanding the drivers of mortality and morbidity is essential for identifying and developing suitable business opportunities.

Description: This article discusses the author’s reactions to the Living To 100 Symposium. He summarizes several sessions and concludes by saying his main takeaway from the symposium is that the debate continues as to whether there is a significant chance of finding a way, over the near- or medium-term, to slow the aging process.

Description: This paper examines demographic characteristics of people over the age of 100 in Spain and how this has changed over time.

Description: This is the transcript from Session 3C: Challenges and Strategies for Financing an Increasingly Long Life from the 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: This paper is about the world's oldest-old population - those 80 years and older - and their life expectancy. It provides a few methods for extending the life tables to age 100 and beyond, and projects mortality patterns at very old ages.

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: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 2B: Older-Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

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.

Description: This is the panel informal discussion transcript for Session 4C:Innovative Business Solutions to Respond to an Aging Society at 2017 Living to 100 Symposium.