theMatureMarket.com | August 20, 2011

More of Us on Track to Reach Age 100

(…) In the countries with the longest life expectancies, average life span has grown over the past two centuries at the "absolutely remarkable rate" of about 2.5 years per decade, three months per year, or six hours per day, according to demographer James Vaupel of Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. (…)

Quoted MPIDR Member: James W. Vaupel

http://www.thematuremarket.com/SeniorStrategic/More_of_Us_on...

NortheastCobbPatch | July 31, 2011

Will You Live for 100 Years?

(...) You have a 50 percent chance for every year beyond that, and living from 100 to 110 "is like tossing heads 10 times in a row,” James Vaupel, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, told Science. (...)

Quoted MPIDR Member: James W. Vaupel

http://northeastcobb.patch.com/articles/will-you-live-for-100-years-2

Science magazine | July 29, 2011

A Pitched Battle Over Life Span

(...) DEMOGRAPHERS MIGHT NOT SEEM THE SORT to engage in fi ery debate—until you talk to James Vaupel and S. Jay Olshansky. The two sit at opposite poles of a dispute (although never in the same place at the same time) that has long fueled speculation: What will human life expectancy look like in the years to come? (...) Vaupel, an American who works mainly at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and Olshansky of the University of Illinois in Chicago, appear to have sourced their crystal balls from very different manufacturers. (...)

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/549.full?sid=2fe3...