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- Centenarians - Featuring a new centenarian each month. Stories of people who lived to be 100.
- New England Centenarian Study - The NECS is the largest genetic study of centenarians in the world with approximately 1,000 subjects enrolled including centenarians, their siblings and children and control subjects.
- The Okinawa Centenarian Study - Offers information and statistics on centenarians, a description of a centenarian study, book excerpts, biographies on the researchers, and contact information. Also contains links to news articles and a mailing list.
- Ask Trudy - Personal site of a centenarian (1899-2003). Includes her story, her secrets to long life, favorite jokes and quotes, and links to sites of interest to centenarians and other seniors.
- Supercentenarians - Lists the oldest authenticated centenarians above 112 years old and offers an archive of research articles.
- Centenarians and surgery - [CNN]
- The Health Report: Centenarian Study - A group of researchers at Harvard Medical School have been trying to find out what it takes to reach the age of 100 or more. An interview with to two of the principal investigators, Drs Margery Silver and Dr Tom Perls.
- The Okinawa Centenarian Study - Identifies eleven genetic and lifestyle factors responsible for successful, healthy aging.
- National Centenarian Awareness Project - Nonprofit organization seeking to contact and honor all those 100 years old and older for their contributions to the past. Interviews, greeting cards and registry.
- Gerontology Research Group Centenarian Study - Overview of scientific research throughout the world. Includes a photo gallery and comprehensive tables of known supercentenarians.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of centenarians - Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be or are living at 100 years or more of age), with the still living ones bolded and italicized. This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian (mostly) became well-known.
- New England Centenarian Study - The New England Centenarian Study is a study of persons aged 100 and over (centenarians) in the Boston area. It's is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious studies in the USA and the world.
- Supercentenarian - A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians (based on European data). In turn, only about one supercentenarian in 44 lives to turn 115, or 2% of 110-year-olds can expect to survive five more years.