Month of birth influences survival up to age 105+: first results from the age validation study of Germans aged 105+ • Gabriele Doblhammer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Rembrandt Scholz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Heiner Maier, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The determinants of healthy longevity among the oldest-old in China • Dennis A. Ahlburg, University of Minnesota ; Eric R. Jensen, College of William and Mary ; Ruyan Liao, University of Minnesota

Tallness comes with higher mortality in two cohorts of US Army Officers • Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg ; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University

Estimating the age at which the “old" become "old-old" • Borek Puza, Australian National University ; Christopher Heathcote, Australian National University

Horizontalisation, verticalisation and longevity extension: three dimensions of the transformations of the survival curve – the case of Switzerland • Siu Lan Karen Cheung, INSERM ; Fred Paccaud, Université de Lausanne