Tag: centenarian

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How often do you eat red meat? Do you exercise regularly? Cancer in your family? Did you go to college? These questions – among the varied and complex predictors of longevity – are packed into a calculator that will estimate how long you could live. The calculator was created by Dr. Thomas Perls, an expert…

Birthday candle as number one hundred on top of sweet cake on the table

Probably not yet, but higher-income couples should be thinking in terms of their mid-90s.  A recent press request centered on the premise that people now have a good chance to live to 100 and what that might mean for achieving a secure retirement.  I had been thinking about mortality rates and life expectancy recently, and…