Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer, gerontologist, author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Carol Jagger is the editor of Determining Health Expectancies, published by Wiley.
12 Ebooks by Jean-Marie Robine
Jean-Marie Robine & Carol Jagger: Determining Health Expectancies
Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health – replacing quality by quantity. Health expectancies extend the …
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€244.95
Yi Zeng & Eileen M. Crimmins: Longer Life and Healthy Aging
A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population aging and achieving healthy aging to maintain an active older population and reduce the number of disabled peop …
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€96.29
Jean-Marie Robine & Eileen M. Crimmins: Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population
Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The …
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€96.29
J.R. Carey & Jean-Marie Robine: Longevity and Frailty
Understanding the relationship between frailty and longevity becomes increasingly important as the world continues to age and life expectancy in most countries continues to increase. The articles con …
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€213.99
Heiner Maier & Jutta Gampe: Supercentenarians
Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database …
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€96.29
Athanase Benetos & Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros: Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging
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€75.88
Athanase Benetos & Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros: Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging
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€76.22
Caleb E. Finch & Jean-Marie Robine: Brain and Longevity
In this third volume on longevity Fondation Ipsen has again collected the most recent results in research on genes and diet in the evolution of human longevity, educational level and longevity, cogni …
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€115.15
Michel Allard & Bernard Forette: Paradoxes of Longevity
An ever greater number of our contemporaries will reach a very much greater age than their ancestors. Longevity is one of the most fertile fields for paradoxes: it is clear that the same causes do no …
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€113.51
Michel Allard & Bernard Jeune: Longevity: To the Limits and Beyond
Why longevity? For a number of years, the Fondation IPSEN has been devoting considerable effort to the various aspects of ageing, not only to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, but also to the …
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€114.69
Jean-Marie Robine & Carol Jagger: Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 33, 2013
Developed countries and certain regions of economically emerging nations have displaying a rapidly growing population of the oldest-oldónonagenarians, centenarians, and supercentenarians. As this tre …
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€99.99
Carol Jagger & Eileen M. Crimmins: International Handbook of Health Expectancies
This handbook presents global research on health expectancies, a measure of population health that examines the interaction between quantity and quality of life. With data from Europe, North America, …
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€160.49
