This paper examines and demonstrates the importance of the adult modal age at death (M)
in longevity research. Unlike life expectancy at birth (e₀) and median age at death, M is …

BACKGROUND Mortality can be forecast by means of parametric models, principal
component methods, and smoothing approaches. These methods either impose rigid …

Indicators based a fixed “old” age threshold have been widely used for assessing
socioeconomic disparities in mortality at older ages. Interpretation of long-term trends and …

Mortality forecasting has received increasing interest during recent decades due to the
negative financial effects of continuous longevity improvements on public and private …

BACKGROUND The longevity gains recorded in high-income countries since the 1960s are
mainly due to a reduction in mortality from chronic degenerative diseases, which particularly …

Abstract The Lee–Carter (LC) model represents a landmark paper in mortality forecasting.
While having been widely accepted and adopted, the model has some limitations that hinder …

The US elderly experience shorter lifespans and greater variability in age at death than their
Canadian peers. In order to gain insight on the underlying factors responsible for the …

In the past 90 years, remarkable progress was made in substantially improving survival and
longevity in Canada, establishing it as a member of today's group of very low mortality …

In this study, using the methods of spatial autocorrelation in geographic information systems
(GIS), an analysis of the spatial distribution of mortality rates in Bosnia and Herzegovina was …

“Fra la precisa descrizione di un fatto del passato e l'accurata previsione del futuro non c'è
alcuna relazione, ma è ovvio che l'una tende a rendere più credibile l'altra.[There is no …