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S. Jay Olshansky
Researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications - 105
Citations - 8217
S. Jay Olshansky is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life expectancy & Population. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 103 publications receiving 7676 citations. Previous affiliations of S. Jay Olshansky include American Federation for Aging Research & University of London.
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A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century
S. Jay Olshansky,Douglas J. Passaro,Ronald C. Hershow,Jennifer E. Layden,Bruce A. Carnes,Jacob A. Brody,Leonard Hayflick,Robert N. Butler,David B. Allison,David S. Ludwig +9 more
TL;DR: From an analysis of the effect of obesity on longevity, it is concluded that the steady rise in life expectancy during the past two centuries may soon come to an end.
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Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up.
S. Jay Olshansky,Toni C. Antonucci,Lisa F. Berkman,Robert H. Binstock,Axel H. Boersch-Supan,John T. Cacioppo,Bruce A. Carnes,Laura L. Carstensen,Linda P. Fried,Dana P. Goldman,James S. Jackson,Martin Kohli,John Rother,Yuhui Zheng,John W. Rowe +14 more
TL;DR: Estimates of the impact of race and education on past and present life expectancy are updated, trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008 are examined, and observed disparities are placed in the context of a rapidly aging society that is emerging at a time of optimism about the next revolution in longevity.
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On the Biodemography of Aging: A Review Essay@@@Between Zeus and the Salmon: The Biodemography of Longevity
TL;DR: This volume brings together the opinions of biologists and demographers on the topic of human longevity and an interdisciplinary approach to aging and longevity is advocated and stressed.
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Trading Off Longer Life for Worsening Health The Expansion of Morbidity Hypothesis
TL;DR: Why future declines in mortality will have a diminishing effect on the metric of life expectancy but a large impact on the size of future elderly cohorts is demonstrated and a hypothesis in which it is argued that morbidity and disability will decline and become compressed into a shorter duration of time before death is addressed.
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Heterogeneity in Healthy Aging
TL;DR: It is found that a significant proportion of older Americans is healthy within every age group beginning at age 51, including among those aged 85+.