Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population

A rigorous, internationally authored Springer academic volume that made a genuine contribution to demography when it appeared, drawing together epidemiology, genetics, biology, and population science to explain the then-emerging phenomenon of rapidly growing oldest-old populations. S. Jay Olshansky calling it essential for researchers in the field is meaningful praise from a credible source. The data is nearly two decades old now, which limits its current utility, but within its specialist lane it remains a solid, well-constructed reference.