Description: This article covers subjects discussed at the 2011 Living To 100 Symposium. Included were the real potential of a material extension of life and economic challenges associated such an occurrence.

Description: Feature article with helpful hints on video conferencing and more!

Description: This is the transcript for Session 5B : What is Different Today for Post-retirement Financial Planning? from the 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: The traditional informal care of/by family has faced increasing geographic and economic challenges from changing family households and sources of family income. Financial planning and risk protection tools provide important resource in the changing retirement landscape toward optimal family support and crisis management, that is, with less duress and financial burden to affected family caregivers. Ultimately, maintaining family values and close communications through evolving family structures are key to a healthy society and economic welfare of the people.

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: The abstract for the paper Implications of an Aging Population in India: Challenges and Opportunities.

Description: The abstract for the paper Seasons and Longevity: Mortality Trajectories among the Oldest Old.

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.