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 addresses the question of how socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, health status and health behaviors are associated with oldest-old mortality and survivorship among people who have survived to old age. Data comes from the 1990-91 National Health Interview Survey’s Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Supplement and the mortality follow-up through 2002. The results indicate that activity limitation and exercise status, in combination with education, play an important role in survival into ages between 65 and 85, but have a smaller effect on survival among the oldest-old population of 85+.

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.

Description: This is the General Session II panel transcript on Insights into Successful Aging from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: We describe our process of hand-curation of centenarian pedigrees and software that we developed for the automated construction of pedigrees.

Description: Essays show a new system that will encompass minor changes to the current health insurance system, it will allow consumers to sign up for Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan and be administered like Medicare but with more benefits and emphasis on preventive care.

Description: This paper deals with the level and age trajectory of mortality at advanced ages in Canada, based on population data.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium 2002. Discussion on 'Living to Age 100 in Canada in 2000' by Doray and 'Oldest-Old Mortality Rates and the Gompertz Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Study Based on Four Countries' by Yue papers.

Description: This paper explores how mortality tables have been ended in the past addresses the question as to whether an ending rate of 1.000 is most appropriate. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.