centenarians News

centenarians News From AOL News

Whoops! Japan Misplaces 230,000 Centenarians

(Sept. 10) -- To lose one centenarian may be regarded as a misfortune, Oscar Wilde might have said, but to lose 230,000 looks like carelessness. Yet that's exactly what's happened in Japan, where officials today revealed that they are unable to locate hundreds of thousands of citizens supposedly aged 100 or over. The...

Tokyo's 'Oldest Woman' Hasn't Been Seen for Decades

(Aug. 3) -- Only days after finding out that Tokyo's "oldest man" had been dead for 30 years, Japanese officials got another surprise today: The capital's "oldest woman" hasn't been seen for decades. Fusa Furuya was said to be 113 and listed as living with her daughter, but when officials went to investigate they were...

Scientists Identify Genes For 'Extreme Longevity'

(July 1) -- One hundred-year-old Lorna Gobey credits Guinness, cigarettes and a good game of bingo for her remarkable longevity, while Walter Breuning, still robust at 113 years, relies on a daily combination of two meals, a single aspirin and one long walk. The long lifespans of the Okinawa people, meanwhile, seem to...

Essay: So You Want to Live to Be 100?

(Nov. 24) -- Gertrude Baines, the oldest person in the world, died in Los Angeles in September at the age of 115. She was a very senior poster child for that traditional birthday wish, "May you live to be 100." Damian Dovarganes, AP Baines lived on her own until she was 105. By all accounts she was mentally alert,...

centenarians News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Background on centenarians

A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average global life expectancies are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity.

more at wikipedia »