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SUMMARY:Extreme Ageing - Professor Sarah Harper\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:There was a general belief that while death rates for children
  and young adults would fall as we learnt to conquer infectious diseases\,
  death rates for the over 65s would never slow. Yet by the end of the 20th
  Century\, the decline  in human mortality rates was fastest for those in 
 old age.  It was argued that  life expectancy would never reach beyond 90 
 years. Latest figures suggest that this will be breached with 20 years\, a
 nd that half of those born today in Europe will reach over 100. At what ye
 ar will a human live longer than  Jeanne Louise Calment - who died at 122 
 years old in 1997? Or will this be the maximum life span of any human bein
 g?  With life expectancy gains reaching over 2 years with every decade thi
 s lecture will focus on how long human can expect to survive\, and ask the
  question why is there a search for extreme longevity and what will be the
  societal consequences?  \n\nBiography\n\nSarah is Professor of Gerontolog
 y at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Institute of Popu
 lation Ageing which she founded in 1997 with funding from the NIA. Sarah c
 urrently  serves on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technol
 ogy\, which advises the Prime Minister on the scientific evidence for stra
 tegic policies and frameworks. She chairs the UK government Foresight Revi
 ew on Ageing Societies\, and the European Ageing Index Panel for the UNECE
  Population Unit. She is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Sara
 h was the first holder of the International Chair in Old Age Financial Sec
 urity\, at the University of Malaya (2009/10) and her research was recogni
 zed by the 2011 Royal Society for Public Health: Arts and Health Research 
 Award. \nSarah has a background in anthropology and population studies and
  her early research focused on migration and the social implications of de
 mographic change. Her current research on demographic change addresses the
  global and regional impact of falling fertility and increasing longevity\
 , with a particular interest in Asia and Africa. Sarah has just completed 
 a monograph on Population Challenges for Oxford University Press (2015)\, 
 and is working her next book for Cambridge University Press Population and
  Environmental Change.\nThroughout her academic career\, Sarah has combine
 d academic research with external professional commitments. Internationall
 y\, Sarah represents the UK on the European Science Academies’ Demograph
 ic Change in Europe Panel\, serves on the Council of Advisors of Populatio
 n Europe and on the Advisory Board of the World Demographic Association. S
 he serves on  the Advisory Board\, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (E
 LSA). Sarah served as Advisor to the Malaysian Government\, Advisor to the
  Singapore Government’s Third Age Council and as a Specialist Advisor fo
 r the European Commission Demographic Change Programme.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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