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A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies everywhere are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. A supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Even rarer is a person who has lived to age 115 – there are only 39 people in recorded history who have indisputably reached this age, of whom only Susannah Mushatt Jones, Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, Violet Brown and Nabi Tajima are still living. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide. As life expectancy is increasing across the world, and the world population has also increased rapidly, the number of centenarians is expected to rise fast in the future. According to the UK ONS, one-third of babies born in 2013 in the UK are expected to live to 100.
The United States currently has the greatest number of known centenarians of any nation with 53,364 according to the 2010 Census, or 17.3 per 100,000 people. In 2010, 82.8% of US centenarians were female.Japan has the second-largest number of centenarians, with an estimated 51,376 as of September 2012, and the highest proportion of centenarians at 34.85 per 100,000 people. Japan started recording its centenarians in 1963. The number of Japanese centenarians in that year was 153, but surpassed the 10,000 mark in 1998; 20,000 in 2003; and 40,000 in 2009. According to a 1998 United Nations demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272,000 centenarians by 2050; other sources suggest that the number could be closer to 1 million. The incidence of centenarians in Japan was one per 3,522 people in 2008.
A fascinating interview of a centenarian sharing his life experiences about living and dying, gracefully aging and trying his best to live a good and honest life. Read the entire interview of 20 questions asked of this centenarian gentleman and his wisdom-filled answers. Visit Pierini Fitness at www.pierinifitness.com. It will appear on March 1, 2014. Do a search for "Yes I would!"
James Richardson, 111 years old, died April 29, 2015. Listen to excerpts from a 2014 interview with Richardson at Parkwood Health Care in Phenix City.
Learn more about the history of the Ann Arbor community: http://washtenawhistory.org/images/watchman_dale_leslie.pdf and video interviews and tributes with local personalities: http://washtenawhistory.org/images/dale_leslie.pdf Instead of selling his farm to subdivision developers, Don Staebler wanted to preserve his family farm. So he made a special arrangement to transform his farm into a Washtenaw County Park. The county won the award, "Barn of the Year" in 2011 for the restoration of the oldest barn on the property. The other barns were also restored, which included putting new roofs on them. Don tells the story of how his family moved to the farm in 1912. He shares to stories of making a living as a farmer in Michigan. His amazing memory is evidenced in this video. Don talks ...
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Interview with Marjorie Sheldon and Marian Clifford for the Centennial Year celebration at CSMSG
Interview with Alma Geraldine Ray, a centenarian from Harts Gap, Christ Church. 100 years old and still going strong, God bless her. Proportionally behind Okinawa Japan, Barbados has the second-highest percentage of centenarians in the world.
Hey we're gonna be around
Hey we're gonna work it out
Hey there's nothing to fight about
Today we're gonna be about
You hardly know me, you say I'm your best friend
Everything's ace, it'll work out in the end
Say that you love us, I don't believe that you want me to stay
You're hoping that I'll go away
I'm gonna be around
Hey I'm gonna work it out
Hey there's plenty to fight about
No way I'm ever going down
You hardly know me, you say I'm your best friend
Everything's ace, it'll work out in the end
Say that you love us, I don't believe that you want me to stay
You're hoping that I'll go away
You follow me here, follow me there
You mess me around like you think that I care
You think that I need you, you think that you own me
You don't think I see you, you don't think you know me
You can tell me all the things you want to say