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Longer Life and Healthy Ageing
Beijing, China 22-27 October 2001

Organised by the IUSSP Committee on Longevity and Health

Programme

Monday 22 October

8:30: Welcome - Inscriptions

9: 00 - 9:15: Opening

9:15 - 10:40: Session 1: Healthy Ageing (I)
Chair: Jean-Marie Robine

Carol Jagger
Can we live longer, healthier lives?

Lois Verbrugge
Disability Questions: Number, Meaning, and uses

10:40 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30: Session 2: Healthy Ageing (II)
Chair: Zeng Yi

Jean Pierre Michel, F.Herrmann, J-M Robine
Healthy Ageing

Eileen Crimmins, Melanie Wong, Mark Hayward and Teresa Seeman
Age Differences in Allostatic Load: An Index of Healthy Ageing

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Session 3: Methods of Computing Healthy Life Expectancy
Chair: Shiro Horiuch

Nicolas Brouard
Methods of Computing Healthy Life Expectancy: Review Paper

James and Sarah Laditka
Effects of Diabetes on Healthy Life Expectancy: Shorter Lives with More Disability for Both Women and Men

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30: Session 4: Healthy Ageing in the World (I)
Chair: Yves Carrière

Yasuhiko Saito
Review of Active Life in Asian Countries

Ming-cheng Chang
Ageing and disability in Taiwan : prevalence and transitions from a panel study

Tuesday 23 October

9:00 - 10:30: Session 5: Healthy Ageing in the World (II)
Chair: Eileen Crimmins

Roberto Ham Chande
Healthy Aging in Latin America

Russell Wilkins
Healthy Life Expectancy in Low Mortality Countries: the Canadian experience

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30: Session 6: Determinants of Healthy Ageing (I)
Chair: Jean-Marie Robine

Emily Grundy
Gender and Healthy Ageing

Emmanuelle Cambois
Social inequalities in mortality at old ages in France: How late life occupational mobility can change the estimated differentials

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Session 7: Determinants of Healthy Ageing (II)
Chair: Shiro Horiuchi

Larry Corder
Health and the Extremely Aged: The 1982-1999 National Long Term Care Survey

Zeng Yi, Gu Danan, and Liu Yuzhi
Gender differentials of the oldest old in China

Yves Carrière, Laurent Martel, Lucie Morin and Jacques Légaré
Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with the use of Formal and/or Informal Support Networks at older ages in Canada

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30: Session 8: Determinants of Healthy Aging (III)
Chair: Yves Carrière

Elizabeth Corder
Inherited frailty: APOE polymorphism and prognosis for heart disease and stroke at ages 85+

Claudio Franceschi
Genes and robust ageing: Review paper

Suzanne Tyas, Snowdon DA, Desrosiers MF, Markesbery WR
Neuropathology of Healthy Aging: Findings from the Nun Study

20:00 Dinner

Third day - Wednesday 24 October

9:00 - 11:00: Session 9: Determinants of Healthy Aging (IV))
Chair: Zeng Yi

Nadia Minicucci, S. Maggi, C. Marzari, M. Noale, G.Crepaldi
Healthy aging and associated factors in a cohort of older Italians: The ILSA study

Pascale Barberger-Gateau, Luc Letenneur, Colette Fabrigoule, Jean-François Dartigues
Determinants of healthy aging: aging without dementia

Yongyi Li, Elizabeth H Corder, Larry S Corder, Vicki Lamb
Disability Patterns for U.S. Nursing Home Residents over Two Decades: Findings from the 1973 to 1997 National Nursing Home Surveys

11:00- 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00: Session 10: Centenarians
Chair: Eileen Crimmins

Karen Andersen-Ranberg
The Danish longitudinal centenarian study

Zhenglian Wang
Association of socio-economic factors with functional capacity and self-reported health of centenarians in China