Living to 100 and Beyond: Survival at Advanced Ages Monograph
- January 17–18, 2002
- Walt Disney World Swan Resort
- Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- Keynote Speaker–Living to 100 and Beyond: Implications of Longer Life Spans
- Anna M. Rappaport, FSA, MAAA, FCA, EA and Alan Parikh, FSA, EA
- Complete Paper
- Session 1: Theory of Aging Session
- Longevity Determination and Aging
- Leonard Hayflick, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Plastic Omega
- Gene Held, FSA, MAAA
- Complete Paper
- Tables
- Underlying and Multiple Cause Mortality at Advanced Ages: United States 1980-1998
- Eric Stallard, ASA, MAAA
- Complete Paper
- Tables
- Discussant Comments
- Jay S. Olshansky, PhD
- Author Reply
- Gene Held, FSA, MAAA
- Session 2: Mortality Laws and Models Session–Part I
- Living to Age 100 in Canada in 2000
- Louis G. Doray, PhD, ASA
- Complete Paper
- Oldest-Old Mortality Rates and the Gompertz Law: A Theoretical and Empirical Study Based on Four Countries
- Ching-Syang Jack Yue (Jack C. Yue), PhD, ASA
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Leonid A. Gavrilov, PhD
- Session 3: Mortality Laws and Models Session–Part II
- Approaches and Experiences in Projecting Mortality Patterns for the Oldest Old
- Thomas Büettner, PhD, Msc
- Complete Paper
- Using Dynamic Reliability in Estimating Mortality at Advanced Ages
- Fanny L.F. Lin, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Natalia S. Gavrilova, PhD
- Session 4: Sparse Data Session
- Dealing with Problems in Data Quality for the Measurement of Mortality at Advanced Ages in Canada
- Robert Bourbeau, PhD and Bertrand Desjardins PhD
- Complete Paper
- Tables
- Mortality at Advanced Ages in Spain
- Angeles Checa Maria Felipe and Jens Perch Nielsen
- Complete Paper
- Emergence of Supercentenarians in Low Mortality Countries
- Jean-Marie Robine and James W. Vaupel, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Bertram M. Kestenbaum, ASA
- Session 5: Risk Factors Session–Part I
- Mortality for Retired Federal Employees and their Survivors
- Michael R. Virga, ASA, MAAA, EA
- Complete Paper
- Analysis of Mortality in a Small Sample of Older Adults
- Bruce Leonard Jones, PhD, Hyuk-Sung Kwon, Donald H. Paterson, David A. Cunningham and John J. Koval
- Complete Paper
- Detection and Significance of Frailty in Elderly Insurance Applicants
- Robert J. Pokorski, MD, FACP
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- John W. Paddon, FSA, MAAA
- Session 6: Risk Factors Session–Part II
- Estimating Mortality of Insured Advanced-age Population with Cox Regression Model
- Zhiwei Zhu, PhD, Michael Hoag, FSA, Stephane Julien, FSA and Sufang Cui, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Data Mining Techniques for Mortality at Advanced Age
- Lijia Guo, PhD, ASA, MAAA and Morgan C. Wang, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Esther Portnoy, PhD
- Complete Paper
- Session 7: Mortality at Oldest Ages Session–Part I
- Reported Deaths of Centenarians and Near-Centenarians in the U.S. Social Security Administration's Death Master File
- Kenneth Faig, Jr., FSA
- Complete Paper
- Tables
- Mortality of the Extreme Aged in the United States in the 1990s, based on Improved Medicare Data
- Bertram M. Kestenbaum, ASA and B. Reneé Ferguson, MS
- Complete Paper
- Mortality at Advanced Ages in the United Kingdom
- Adrian P Gallop, BSc, FIA
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Ward Kingkade, PhD
- Author Reply
- Kenneth Faig, Jr., FSA
- Session 8: Mortality at Oldest Ages Session–Part II
- Pensioner Mortality in the New York State Public Retirement Systems
- James Fox
- Complete Paper
- Living and Dying Beyond Age 100 in Japan
- Jean-Marie Robine and Yasuhiko Saito, PhD and Carol Jagger
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments
- Ward Kingkade, PhD
- Author Reply
- Yasuhiko Saito, PhD