While not quite on a par with Mel Brooks' 2,000 Year-Old Man, this volume reports on some folks who've been around for a long time. Contributors to 15 papers in

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken w

States that the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of new-borns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How lon

Key research in the world’s largest aging population – in China – has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older p