Prospective longevity : a new vision of population aging / Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov.
| Author/creator | Sanderson, Warren C. author. |
| Other author | Scherbov, Sergei, author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A brief history of measures of population aging -- Mathematical appendix -- Prospective ages -- Mathematical appendix -- How old do you need to be to be old? -- How different are measures of population aging based on chronological and prospective age? -- Note on NTA economic support ratios -- Determining ages based on the characteristics of people -- Mathematical appendix -- The stage of old-age -- Is the quality of life in old-age getting worse? -- Survival trajectories: Russian regions and US states -- The gender gap in survival -- What would happen to population aging if life expectancy increase sped up? -- If life expectancy continues to increase, will population aging ever stop? -- Appendix -- Intergenerationally equitable normal pension ages -- Mathematical appendix -- Choosing which pair of glasses to wear |
| Abstract | "The study of aging is not fundamentally about how old people are. It is about people's capabilities and their disabilities. In the field of population aging, measurements have generally been made with instruments devised many decades ago. Those measurements systems did not take the changing characteristics of older people into account. Using them 65-year-olds with a remaining life expectancy of 5 years could not be distinguished from 65-year-olds with a remaining life expectancy of 25 years. Although, in the past, those instruments did help us see better, it is now clear that there is a great deal that they did not allow us to see. Prospective Longevity provide a new view of who is old, how healthy people are in old age, the gender gap in survival at older ages, differences in patterns of survival across Russian regions and United States, the effects on the pace of population aging of medical breakthroughs that allow people to live much longer lives, and how an intergenerationally equitable pension age should change as life expectancy increases"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Language | In English. |
| Source of description | Print version record |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record |
| Issued in other form | Print version Sanderson, Warren C. Prospective longevity Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674975613 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780674243316 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 0674243315 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 9780674243323 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 0674243323 electronic bk. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4159/9780674243316 |
| Stock number | 9598B2EE-5026-4E3E-A10E-FF7937AC85DF OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |