Monographie
Supercentenarians
Demographic research monographs 07
XVI, 325 pages. Heidelberg [et al.], Springer (2010)
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Foreword
Contents
Part I General
On the age validation of supercentenarians
Michel Poulain
The International Database on Longevity: Structure and contents
Amandine Cournil, Jean-Marie Robine, Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe, James W. Vaupel
Part II Country reports
Supercentenarians in the United States
Bert Kestenbaum, B. Renee Ferguson
The emergence of supercentenarians in Canada
Bertrand Desjardins, Robert Bourbeau
Supercentenarians in Japan
Yasuhiko Saito
Being very old in a young country: Centenarians and supercentenarians in Australia
John McCormack
Supercentenarians in France
France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Jean-Marie Robine, Guy Desplanques, Amandine Cournil
Italian supercentenarians: Age validation of deaths from 1969 to 2000
Silvia Bruzzone, Elisabetta Barbi, Graziella Caselli
Emergence and verification of supercentenarians in Spain
Rosa Gómez-Redondo, Juan M. García González
Age validation of persons aged 105 and above in Germany
Heiner Maier, Rembrandt Scholz
The growth of high ages in England and Wales, 1635-2106
A. Roger Thatcher
Supercentenarians in the Nordic Countries
Axel Skytthe, Antti Hervonen, Celvin Ruisdael, Bernard Jeune
Part III Research on supercentenarians
Human mortality beyond age 110
Jutta Gampe
Is it possible to measure life expectancy at 110 in France?
France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Jean-Marie Robine, Guy Desplanques, Amandine Cournil
Age 115 or more in the United States: Fact or fiction?
Robert Young
Jeanne Calment and her successors. Biographical notes on the longest living humans
Bernard Jeune, Jean-Marie Robine, Robert Young, Bertrand Desjardins, Axel Skytthe, James W. Vaupel