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The Demography and Biodemography of Aging

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The demography of aging involves the investigation of trends in vital statistics in national populations and among population subgroups – including the study of shifts in the relative age structure of populations and the duration of life of individuals and the forces that influence their change over time. The biodemography of aging is a new scientific discipline that began in 1992 when the science of evolutionary biology, formulated in the twentieth century, was used to explain age patterns of death in humans first identified in the early nineteenth century. Both fields of science are now central to understanding how long humans can live and whether health span can be extended by modifying the underlying biological process of aging.

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    S. Jay Olshansky

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  1. California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Newbury Park, CA, USA

    Michael R. Wasserman

  2. Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Debra Bakerjian

  3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, USA

    Sunny Linnebur

  4. Division of Geriatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Sharon Brangman

  5. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari

  6. Section of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

    Sonja Rosen

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Olshansky, S.J. (2023). The Demography and Biodemography of Aging. In: Wasserman, M.R., Bakerjian, D., Linnebur, S., Brangman, S., Cesari, M., Rosen, S. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01782-8_101-1

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