2008 Living to 100 Monograph
- Table of Contents by Session
- January 7–9, 2008
- Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort
- Lake Buena Vista, FL
The Living to 100 monograph is composed of the papers presented at the symposium held January 7–9, 2008, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
- Program
- General Session 1: Implications of Longer Life Spans: What Does This All Mean to Us?
- Moderator: Anna M. Rappaport
- Panelists: Timothy F. Harris, Dawn E. Helwig, Valerie A. Paganelli, David K Sandberg, Steven G. Vernon
- Session 1A: Distinguishing Health Status for Advanced Ages
- Moderator: Craig M. Baldwin
- Panelists: Faye S. Albert, Thomas Ashley, Robert Gleeson, Stephen K. Holland
- Session 1B: Perspectives on a Changing Global Retirement Paradigm
- Living to 100 and Beyond in Canada with Dignity
- Doug Andrews
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Micro Pension Plan: Indian Perspective
- Prakash Bhattacharya
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Retirement and Retirement Ages in Canada Revisited
- Brian L. Burnell
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: J. Bruce MacDonald
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 2A: Demographic Implications of Aging Populations Internationally
- Challenges on Improved Life Spans in India—the Actuarial Implications
- N.V. Subramanyan
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Economic Sustainability of Retirement Pensions in Mexico: Is There a Link with the Mexican–Origin Population in the United States?
- Roberto Ham–Chande
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- New Findings on the International Relationship between Income Inequality and Population Health
- Robert L. Brown and Steven G. Prus
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: John W. Paddon
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 2B: Emerging Definitions of Retirement
- Moderator: Anna M. Rappaport
- Panelists: Doug Andrews, Steven Haberman, Valerie A. Paganelli, Anna M. Rappaport, Steven G. Vernon
- General Session 2: Social Insurance Perspectives and Implications
- Mortality Projections in the United Kingdom
- Adrian Gallop
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Mortality Projections for Social Security Programs in Canada
- Michel Montambeault and Jean–Claude Ménard
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Mortality Projections for Social Security Programs in the United States
- Alice Wade
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Sam Gutterman
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 3A: Social Insurance Follow–up Methodologies and Implications
- Moderator: Sam Gutterman
- Panelists: Stephen C. Goss, Danita L. Pattemore, Alvin K. Winters
- Session 3B: Quality of Life of Elderly
- Living to 100—A Woman's Issue
- Anna M. Rappaport
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Evaluation of Approaches to Reducing Women's Longevity Risks
- Beverly J. Orth
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Estimates of the Incidence, Prevalence, Duration, Intensity and Cost of Chronic Disability among the U.S. Elderly – Ed Lew Award Winner – 1 st Place
- Eric Stallard
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Table
- Discussant Comments: Deborah Briceland–Betts
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 4A: New Models of Advanced Age Mortality
- Inference for Logistic–type Models for the Force of Mortality
- Louis G. Doray
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Predictive Modeling for Advanced Age Mortality
- Lijia Guo
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Tom Edwalds
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 4B: Mortality Measurement and Prediction
- Mortality Measurement at Advanced Ages: A Study of the Social Security Administration Death Master File
- Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Typology and Review of Measures of Human Aging, Longevity and Superlongevity, with Applications to U.S. Data and Some Implications for U.S. Public Programs
- Jacob S. Siegel
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Elizabeth Arias
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 5A: Longevity Risk Pricing
- Living to 100: Survival to Advanced Ages: Insurance Industry Implication on Retirement Planning and the Secondary Market in Insurance
- Jay Vadiveloo, Peng Zhou, Charles Vinsonhaler, and Sudath Ranasinghe
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Longevity Risk Pricing
- Jiajia Cui
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Michael Kaster
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 5B: Prediction from Data
- Data Validation and Measurement of Cohort Mortality among Centenarians in Quebec (Canada) According to Ethnic Origin
- Melissa Beaudry–Godin, Robert Bourbeau, and Bertrand Desjardins
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Physical and Socioeconomic Characteristics at Young Age as Predictors of Survival to 100: A Study of a New Historical Data Resource (U.S. WWI Draft Cards)
- Natalia Gavrilova and Leonid A. Gavrilov
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Joseph Lu
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 6A: Projection and Statistical Modeling of Mortality at Late Age
- On Simulation–Based Approaches to Risk Measurement in Mortality with Specific Reference to Binomial Lee–Carter Modelling
- Steve Haberman and Arthur Renshaw
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- A Study of the Lee–Carter Model with Age–Shifts
- Jack C. Yue, Sharon S. Yang and Hong–Chih Huang
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Testing Deterministic versus Stochastic Trends in the Lee–Carter Mortality Indexes and Its Implications for Projecting Mortality Improvements at Advanced Ages – Ed Lew Award Winner – 2 nd Place
- Wai–Sum Chan, Siu–Hang Li and Siu–Hung Cheung
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: W. Ward Kingkade
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- Session 6B: Health Status and Its Impact on Mortality
- Health Expectancy
- Faye S. Albert, John M. Bragg and James C. Brooks, Jr.
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Human Behavior: An Impediment to Future Mortality Improvement
- A Focus on Obesity and Related Matters
- Sam Gutterman
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Health, Wealth and Wisdom-Living Long, Living Well: An Actuary Muses on Longevity
- Michael J. Cowell
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: S. Jay Olshansky
- Author Reply: Faye Albert
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- General Session 3: Theories on Aging
- The Biology of Human Longevity, Aging and Age–Associated Diseases
- Leonard Hayflick
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Is There a Limit to the Compression of Mortality?
- Jean–Marie Robine, Siu Lan K. Cheung, Shiro Horiuchi and A. Roger Thatcher
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Stephen C. Goss
- Informal Discussion Transcript
- General Session 4: Compression of Morbidity
- Is the Compression of Morbidity a Universal Phenomenon?
- Jean–Marie Robine, Siu Lan K. Cheung, Shiro Horiuchi and A. Roger Thatcher
- Abstract
- Complete Paper
- Discussant Comments: Faye Albert
- Closing Comments
- Sam Gutterman
The opinions reflected in the papers and discussions are solely those of the authors, discussants, panelists and/or participants and do not represent any official position or opinion of the SOA or its members, the participating organizations and sponsors, and/or the SOA's Committee on Living to 100 Research Symposia.