Session 70: Bio-demography and longevity

Wednesday, July 20 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Salle Olympe de Gouges Level +2

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Month of birth influences survival up to age 105+: first results from the age validation study of Germans aged 105+  •  Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Rembrandt Scholz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Heiner Maier, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

2.	The determinants of healthy longevity among the oldest-old in China  •  Dennis A. Ahlburg, University of Minnesota; Eric R. Jensen, College of William and Mary; Ruyan Liao, University of Minnesota

3.	Tallness comes with higher mortality in two cohorts of US Army Officers  •  Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University

4.	Estimating the age at which the “old" become "old-old"  •  Borek Puza, Australian National University; Christopher Heathcote, Australian National University

5.	Horizontalisation, verticalisation and longevity extension: three dimensions of the transformations of the survival curve – the case of Switzerland  •  Siu Lan Karen Cheung, INSERM; Fred Paccaud, Université de Lausanne

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