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Does the risk of death continue to rise among supercentenarians?
- Abstract:
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A study published in the Society of Actuaries’ 2017 Living to 100 Monograph suggests, in contrast to previous research, that the risk of death after age 110 years increases with age. By fitting a Gompertz model to estimated central death rates for the oldest old, the authors challenge existing theory and empirical research indicating a deceleration of mortality at older ages and the emergence of a plateau. We argue that their results are inconclusive for three reasons: (1) the data selection ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Exceptional Lifespans
- Series:
- Demographic Research Monographs
- Chapter number:
- 4
- Pages:
- 37-48
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-10
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2197-9286
- ISSN:
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1613-5520
- EISBN:
- 9783030499709
- ISBN-10:
- 3030499693
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030499693
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- Language:
- English
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- Subtype:
- Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1149153
- Local pid:
- pubs:1149153
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Villavicencio and Aburto
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2021. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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