Supercentenarians

• General.- On the age validation of supercentenarians.- The International Database on Longevity: Structure and contents.- Country reports.- Supercentenarians in the United States.- The emergence of supercentenarians in Canada.- Supercentenarians in Japan.- Being very old in a young country: Centenarians and supercentenarians in Australia.- Supercentenarians in France.- Italian supercentenarians: Age validation of deaths from 1969 to 2000.- Emergence and verification of supercentenarians in Spain.- Age validation of persons aged 105 and above in Germany.- The growth of high ages in England and Wales, 1635-2106.- Supercentenarians in the Nordic Countries.- Research on supercentenarians.- Human mortality beyond age 110.- Is it possible to measure life expectancy at 110 in France?.- Age 115 or more in the United States: Fact or fiction?.- Jeanne Calment and her successors. Biographical notes on the longest living humans.

From the reviews: "The present volume is an offshoot of an international project on longevity initiated by James Vaupel at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research (MPIDR). ... this book is strongly recommended for all those interested in ageing and longevity, that is, for probably most of us." (Guillaume Wunsch, European Journal of Population, Vol. 27, 2011) "This text contains 16 Chapters in three Sections. Within the sixteen chapters are ten nation-specific reports on how the local demographers gather, verify and analyze data on supercentenarians (those aged 110 or more). The book's focus is very well defined. ... It will be of interest only to those who themselves study mortality among the very old. While more interesting books can, and have been written on the topic, this is a very serious and detailed treatise." (Robert L. Brown, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 39 (1-2), Spring/Summer, 2012)