Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who has attained the age of 100 years or more. The term is associated with longevity because average life expectancies across the world are far from 100. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more. The United States currently has the greatest number of centenarians in the world, numbering over 55,000 in the year 2005. The U.S. number is partly a function of America's large population in 1890-1905, and a century of peace at home. Japan is second, with 25,000. Many ...

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Here is a list of well-known centenarians (with living ones bolded and italicized). This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian became well known. Centenarian - Activists/non-profit leaders. Albert Jean Amateau (1889-1996) Melchora Aquino (1812-1919) "Mother of the Filipino Revolution" Catherine Bramwell-Booth (1883-1987), Salvation Army Commissioner Ruth Ellis (1899-2000) Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) Mother Jones (183 ...

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While claims of extreme age have persisted from the earliest times in history, the earliest supercentenarian accepted by Guinness World Records is Thomas Peters, who was born in Groningen, Netherlands, April 6, 1745, and died there March 26, 1857. (Guinness once accepted Pierre Joubert, but later dropped him). However, scholars such as Jean-Marie Robine consider Geert Adriaans Boomgaard of the Netherlands (1788-1899) to be the first verifiable case, as the alleged evidence for Peters has been "lost." The earliest supercentenarian to reach the age of 113 is Delina Filkins, who was born in Herkimer County, New York, M ...

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A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent). Child is also a counterpart of parent: adults are the children of their parents despite their maturation beyond infancy; for example "Benjamin, aged 46, is the child of Tobias, aged 73". Similarly in a generalized sense, see child node. Child - Gender. A female child is called a girl ...

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Supercentenarian - Official oldest living person. From May 2004 to August 2005 Hendrikje van Andel of Hoogeveen, Netherlands (June 29, 1890–August 29, 2005) was considered oldest documented person in the world, followed by Elizabeth Bolden (born August 15, 1890) of Memphis, Tennessee. However, on December 9, 2005 Guinness recognized the claim of Maria Esther Capovilla of Ecuador (born September 14, 1889) retroactively displacing Bolden and Van Andel and becoming oldest living since the death of Ra ...

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Ageing or aging is the process of becoming older. This article focuses on the social, cultural, and economic effects of ageing. The biology of ageing is treated in detail in senescence. Ageing is an important part of all human societies reflecting the biological changes that occur, but also reflecting cultural and societal conventions. Age is usually, but wholly arbitrarily, measured in years and a p ...

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Main article: Senescence In biology, senescence is the state or process of ageing. Cellular senescence is a phenomenon where isolated cells demonstrate a limited ability to divide in culture. Organismal senescence is the ageing of organisms. Organismal ageing is generally characterized by the declining ability to respond to stress, increasing homeostatic imbalance and increased risk of disease. Because of this, death is the ultimate consequence of ageing. Some researchers are treating ageing as a "di ...

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Child development is the study or examination of processes and mechanisms that operate during the physical and mental development of an infant into an adult. Pediatrics is the branch of medicine relating to the care of children. It encompasses ages from prenatal to teenagers and even young adults (ages 0-21 years). Terms for stages of age-related physical development include, with their approximate age ranges: Zygote, the point of Conception, fertilization Embryo; in the later stages also cal ...

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Development begins with fertilization, the process by which the male gamete, the sperm cell, and the female gamete, the oocyte, fuse to give rise to a diploid cell, the zygote. In medicine, pregnancy is defined as beginning when a fertilized zygote becomes implanted in a woman's uterus. This occurs when the zygote then becomes embedded into the endometrium (lining of the uterus) where it forms a placenta, for the purpose of receiving essential nutrients through the uterus wall. The umbilical cor ...

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Human development refers to all forms of development above, often in the context of clinical or developmental psychology, or as human development theory (in economics, an outgrowth of welfare economics). Both the psychological and economic fields share a special concern with education and language fluency including literacy and numeracy, and with identification and development of more unique talents into the eco ...

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A human life is often arbitrarily divided into various ages. Because biological changes are slow moving and vary from person to person arbitrary dates are usually set to mark periods of human life. In some cultures the divisions given below are quite varied. In the USA and other countries, adulthood legally begins at the age of eighteen or nineteen, while old age is considered to begin at age sixty-five. Infancy Toddler Childhood Preteen Adolescence Young adult Adult ...

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There are variations in many countries as to what age a person legally becomes an adult. In the United States there are issues such as voting age, drinking age, age of consent, age of majority, age of criminal responsibility, marriageable age, age where one can hold public office, and mandatory retirement age. Admission to a movie for instance, may depend on age according to a motion picture rating system. Similarly in the United States in jurisprudence, the defence of infancy is a form of defence by which a defendant argues th ...

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The economics of ageing are also of great import. Children and teenagers have little money of their own, but most of it is available for buying consumer goods. They also have considerable impact on how their parents spent their money. Young adults are an even more valuable cohort. They often have jobs with few responsibilities such as a mortgage or children. They do not yet have set buying habits and are more open to new products. The young are thus the central target of marketers. Television is programmed to attract the 15 to 35 year ...

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Considerable numbers of cultures have less of a problem with age compared with what has been described above, and it is seen as an important status to reach stages in life, rather than defined numerical ages. Advanced age is given more respect and status. ...

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While the density of centenarians per capita was much less in ancient times than today, the data suggest that reaching the age of 100 was not impossible then. Though ancient demographics are biased in favor of wealthy or powerful individuals rather than the ordinary person, it is unscientific to suggest that "ordinary persons" lived longer. Grmek and Gourevitch speculate that during the Classical Greek Period, anyone who made it past the age of five years -- surviving all the common childhood illness of that day --had a reasonable chance of ...

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The Huffington Center on Aging at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is another source for information about Centenarians. As reported on the front cover of USA Today (August 24, 1999), The U.S. Census Bureau has forecast that the number of Americans age 100 or older will increase by more than 22 times the 1990 estimate of 37,306. In October 2001, the US Census Bureau actually reported that there were 50,454 US Centenarians (a more reasonable 35 percent increase) out of a total population of 281.4 million Americans. But by 2050 ...

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