TY - BOOK AU - Maier, Heiner AU - Jeune, Bernard AU - Vaupel, James W. ED - Maier, Heiner ED - Jeune, Bernard ED - Vaupel, James W. AB - How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and patterns in these rare lifespans. The book includes detailed accounts of extreme long-livers and how their long lifespans were documented, as well as reports on the causes of death at the oldest ages. Its key finding, based on the analysis of 1,219 validated supercentenarians, is that the annual probability of death is constant at 50% after age 110. In contrast to previous assertions about a ceiling on the human lifespan, evidence presented in this book suggests that lifespan records in specific countries and globally will be broken again and again as more people survive to become supercentenarians. ​ DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9 ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201214_9783030499709_15 ID - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43277 ID - OAPEN ID: 51118 KW - Demography KW - Aging KW - Internal Medicine KW - Aging Population KW - Ageing KW - Population and Demography KW - Supercentenarians KW - Longevity KW - Oldest-old KW - Mortality KW - Age validation KW - open access KW - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research KW - International Database on Longevity IDL KW - Population & demography KW - Age groups: the elderly KW - Age groups: adults KW - Clinical & internal medicine L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43277/1/2021_Book_ExceptionalLifespans.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32237 PB - Springer Nature PY - 2021 TI - Exceptional Lifespansnull ER -