Citation

Le Bourg E. Ageing Res. Rev. 2012; 11(2): 325-328.

Affiliation

Université Paul-Sabatier, Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, UMR CNRS 5169, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.arr.2012.01.002

PMID

22326652

Abstract

It has been proposed that life expectancy could linearly increase in the next decades and that median longevity of the youngest birth cohorts could reach 105 years or more. These forecasts have been criticized but it seems that their implications for future maximal lifespan (i.e. the lifespan of the last survivors) have not been considered. These implications make these forecasts untenable and it is less risky to hypothesize that life expectancy and maximal lifespan will reach an asymptotic limit in some decades from now.

Language: en