In Search of the First Centenarians

Bernard Jeune

In Search of the First Centenarians

Bernard Jeune

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography

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The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinized in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countries even today, lived less than 100 years. On the other hand, the number of genuine longlivers is exploding and a substantial proportion of current newborns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th birthday. Extremely few of our grandparents endured a century but centenarians may be commonplace among our grandchildren.

This volume explains and documents these assertions, with research that melds judicious scepticism and painstaking scholarship with intellectual excitement about the advaning frontier of survival

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Exceptional Longevity : From Prehistory to the Present
Editors	Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel
Place of Publication	Odense
Publisher	Syddansk Universitetsforlag
Publication date	1995
Chapter	1
ISBN (Print)	8778381355
Publication status	Published - 1995

Series	Monographs on Population Aging
Volume	2
ISSN	0909-119X

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