Purpose. Political, national, religious, and other motivations have led the media and even scientists to errantly accept extreme longevity claims prima facie. We describe various causes of false claims of extraordinary longevity. Design and Methods. American Social Security Death Index files for the period 1980-2009 were queried for individuals with birth and death dates yielding ages 110+ year...

Most definitions of frailty utilize US populations in their development. The concept of frailty has not been well studied in Japan, which has the largest percentage of older patients (per capita) in the world. We created a 5-year prospective cohort study of community-dwelling older Japanese adults. Participants were not frail at baseline, based on our definition adapted from the Canadian Study ...

1Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Aged Care, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 2Department of Aged Care, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 3Laboratory of Ageing and Pharmacology, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales...

Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institut...

Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles. USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institut...