Title:	Longer Life and Healthy Aging
Authors:	ZENG YI EILEEN M. CRIMMINS YVES CARRIÈRE JEAN-MARIE ROBINE
Keywords:	Longer Life
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Committee on Longevity and Health was formed in 1999. Its initial objectives were to study human longevity, the dynamics of health transitions, the emergence and proliferation of centenarians, and demographic-epidemiological projections, to develop implications for the forecast of future health status. The IUSSP Committee on Longevity and Health was chaired by Jean-Marie Robine and members included Vaino Kannisto, Shiro Horiuchi, Yves Carriere, Eileen Crimmins, and Zeng Yi. The Committee held three seminars in 2000, 2001, and 2003. The first seminar was held in Montpellier and included two-day meetings, a public symposium and a training session provided by Committee members at INED in Paris. The objectives of the Montpellier seminar were a critical assessment of our knowledge about human longevity, mortality at older ages, and an understanding of the distribution of individual life durations. The two-day meeting of the second seminar took place at Peking University in Beijing, just prior to an international symposium on “Determinants of Healthy Longevity in China” which enabled Committee members to participate in the symposium along with Chinese participants interested in aging populations. Following this, the committee held a two-day training workshop on calculating active life expectancy at Peking University. The main themes of the Beijing seminar were to define healthy aging and its causes, to understand disability patterns and healthy life expectancy, and to further develop an understanding of healthy longevity. The third seminar was a two-day meeting held at Rockefeller University in New York. The objectives included evolution of understanding of the diverse socioeconomic factors that may be linked to greater functional abilities, and that may positively or negatively influence older people’s living conditions and quality of life in general. In addition, in 2004 the committee organized an international conference in Beijing on the Demographic Window and Healthy Aging. This conference brought together demographers and population economists from Western and Asian countries, to exchange current scientific knowledge on population dynamics, the change in population age structure, and its impact on economic and social development.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56259
ISBN:	978-1-4020-4032-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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