Title varies slightly. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
PART 1: How Healthy Are the Longest Lived?; 1. The Oldest Old: Health in Europe and the United States / Aïda Solé-Auró and Eileen M. Crimmins -- 2. Age Trajectory of High Cognitive Functioning Among the Oldest Old / Mikael Thinggaard, Matt McGue, and Kaare Christensen -- 3. Malleability of Human Aging: The Curious Case of Old-Age Mortality in Japan / Frouke M. Engelaer, Eugene M. G. Milne, David van Bodegom, Yasuhiko Saito, Rudi G. J. Westendorp, and Thomas B. L. Kirkwood -- 4. Quality of Health Care: Approaches and Findings From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing / Nicholas Steel, David Melzer, and Suzanne Richards -- 5. The Semantic Network of Aging Well / Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros, Maria-Angeles Molina, Rocia Schettini, and Marta Santacreu -- 6. A New Concept of Successful Aging in the Oldest Old: Development of Gerotranscendence and Its Influence on the Psychological Well-Being / Yasuyuki Gondo, Takeshi Nakagawa, and Yukie Masui ; PART 2: What Drives Healthy Longevity?; 7. Optimizing Human Health Span and Life Span : Insights From Okinawa and Hawaii / Bradley J. Willcox, Makoto Suzuki, Timothy A. Donlon, Qimei He, John S. Grove, Kamal H. Masaki, and D. Craig Willcox -- 8. Mobility in Human Aging: A Multidisciplinary life Span Conceptual Framework / Luigi Ferrucci and Jack M. Guralnik -- 9. Physical and Biological Indicators of Health and Functioning in U.S. Oldest Old / Jennifer Ailshire and Eileen Crimmins -- 10. Extended fixed attribute dynamics method and illustrative application in biodemographic: genetic analysis on longevity / Yi Zeng -- 11. Gene expression biomarkers and longevity / David Melzer, Luke C. Pilling, Alexander D. Fellows, Alice C. Holly, Lorna W. Harries, and Luigi Ferrucci ; PART 3: Are we living longer healthier? 12. Understanding the mortality decline at older ages: improved life course or improved present period? / Dorly J. H. Deeg, Majogé J. G. van Vliet, Jan W. P. F. Kardaun, and Martijn Huisman -- 13. Recent trends in disability-free life expectancy in the French elderly: twenty years follow-up of the Paquid cohort / Karine Pérès, ARlette Edjolo, Jean-Fraçois Dartigues, and Pascale Barberger-Gateau -- 14. Trends of functioning and health in nonagenarians: the vitality 90+ study / Marja Jylhä, Linda Enroth, and Tiina Luukkaala -- 15. Trends over time in cognitive function and activities of daily living among Danish centenarians / Karen Andersen-Ranberg -- 16. Sex differences in healthy life expectancy in the Netherlands / Frouke M. Engelaer, David van Bodegom, and Rudi G. J. Westendorp.
Series:
Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics ; volume 33, 2013.
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