CENTENARIANS HEALTH TRAJECTORIES

Understanding health trajectories and the prevalence of diseases that are common causes of death in those achieving extreme longevity are important matters for geriatric care provision  . In 2003, Evert et al. conducted a retrospective cohort study of centenarians to explore the timing of most common age-related illnesses and established three distinct morbidity profiles:

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  the “escapers”, who did not succumb to any age-related illnesses;
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  the “delayers”, who experienced delayed onset of age-related illnesses until 80 years;
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  the “survivors”, who survived with disease.