INCREASING LONGEVITY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND PROSPECTS

延长寿命：原因、后果和前景

• 批准号: 6683433
• 负责人: SHIRO HORIUCHI
• 金额: $ 6.96万
• 依托单位: ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6683433
• 关键词: human mortality; long term survivor; longevity; meeting /conference /symposium; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for funds to support a scientific meeting organized by the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller University and the Committee on Longevity and Health of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), in collaboration with United Nations Population Division. This meeting will focus on the increase in human longevity, in particular, the lengthening of survival at old ages. A substantial decline in old-age mortality started in many economically developed countries during the third quarter of the twentieth century, and increased the oldest-old population. The objective of this meeting is to review and discuss latest empirical findings and theories about trends, causes, differentials and future prospects of the longevity expansion, as well as the quality of life of the oldest old, thereby stimulating and encouraging further investigation. Although the decline of old-age mortality has been widely publicized as a demographic fact, our understanding of why the decline has occurred is limited. It is possible to develop a long list of factors that might have contributed to the lengthening of old-age survival, but relative importance of those factors and causal pathways through which many of the factors exerted their effects remain unclear. This meeting will discuss (1) recent trends of old-age mortality decline and old-age health improvement, (2) major causes of the old-age mortality decline, (3) future prospects of old-age mortality decline, and (4) well-being of the oldest old in the context of old-age survival expansion. This meeting will be held at the Rockefeller University in the New York City on October 20-22, 2003. 27 papers will be presented in three days and selected papers will be edited and compiled for publication.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份资助洛克菲勒大学人口实验室和国际人口科学研究联盟长寿与健康委员会与联合国人口司合作组织的科学会议的申请。 本次会议将重点关注人类寿命的延长，特别是老年生存期的延长。 许多经济发达国家的老年人死亡率在20世纪第三季度开始大幅下降，并增加了最老的老年人口。 这次会议的目的是审查和讨论关于寿命延长的趋势、原因、差异和未来前景以及最年长者的生活质量的最新经验性结论和理论，从而促进和鼓励进一步调查。 虽然老年人死亡率下降已作为一个人口事实得到广泛宣传，但我们对死亡率下降原因的了解有限。 有可能列出一长串可能有助于延长老年存活期的因素，但这些因素的相对重要性以及许多因素发挥其影响的因果途径仍然不清楚。 本次会议将讨论（1）近年来老年人死亡率下降和老年人健康改善的趋势，（2）老年人死亡率下降的主要原因，（3）老年人死亡率下降的未来前景，（4）在老年人生存扩大的背景下，高龄老人的福祉。 这次会议将于2003年10月20日至22日在纽约市的洛克菲勒大学举行。 27篇论文将在三天内提交，并将对选定的论文进行编辑和汇编以供出版。