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Have the oldest old adults ever been frail in the past? — a hypothesis that explains modern trends in survival
Author(s)	Anatoli I Yashin, Svetlana V Ukraintseva, Giovanna De Benedictis
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 56A, no 10, October 2001
Pages	pp B432-B442
Keywords	Longevity ; Death rate [statistics] ; Theory ; Mathematical models.
Annotation	Recent demographic studies of ageing and survival reveal three important features characterising mortality rates and survival dynamics in populations of developed parts of the world. These are the deceleration of the age-specific mortality rate at old ages; the age pattern of mortality and survival improvement; and the decline in old age mortality observed in the second half of the 20th century. In this paper, the authors show that all these results can be explained, using a model with a new type of heterogeneity associated with individual differences in adaptive capacity of people or organisms. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-01113027 A
Classmark	BGA: S5: 4D: 3LM
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