International Conference on Healthy Longevity
Peng Shan / Meishan, Sichuang, China, September 21-23, 2005
Organized by
Center for Healthy Aging and Family Studies, PekingUniversity
Center for Chinese Population and Socioeconomic Studies, DukeUniversity
China Gerontology Society
ChinaPopulation Association
Institute of Gerontology, RenmingUniversity
Institute of Population and Labor Economic Research, ChinaAcademy of Social Sciences
Center for Aging Studies, TsinghuaUniversity
Chinese Academic Committee on Socioeconomic Systems
September 21th
8:45-10:20 Opening Session
Cui Baohua, Mayor of MeishanCity
Yuan Shijin, Governor of PengshanCounty
Sichuan provincial Committee on Aging and Representatives academic organizing institutions
Jean. M. Robine, IUSSP, Chair of Committee on Longevity and Health
What are the limits of the human longevity?
ZengYi, Duke Univ.Peking Univ.
Basic pension, harmonious society and family, and healthy longevity studies in China
10:20-10:45 Group photo and Coffee Break
10:45-12:30
Session 2: Elderly health status and its determinants in China
1. Xiao Zhenyu, Yuan Ye, and Wang Lili, Beijing Mainland Institute of Socioeconomics
Lifestyle and healthy longevity among the oldest-old in PengshanCounty
2．Jiyeun Chang, Korea Labor Institute
Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging
3. Zhan Jie and Lin Bao, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, ChineseAcademy of Social Science
Gender difference of children in old age support
12:30 Lunch
14:00-15:45
Session 3:Studies on successful aging
1. Dudley Poston，Texas A&MUniversity
Past and projected population growth in China and the elderly population, and the hazard of dying among China’s oldest old;
2．William P. Moran, Sihan Lv, Guoqing Chen, MedicalUniversity of
South Carolina
Comparisons in ADL impairments between Chinese and American oldest-old
3. Zhao Zhongwei, The AustralianNationalUniversity
Challenges to health longevity：Inequality in health care and mortality in China
4. Denese A. Vlosky (DukeUniv.) Presents paper byDanan Gu, Guangya Liu, Denese A. Vlosky , Zeng Yi:
Factors associated with place of death among the Chinese oldest-old.
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:40
Session 4：Lessons from healthy longevity and centenarians studies
- Leonard W. Poon, Univ. of Georgia
Public health recommendations for longevity: Lessons from the Georgia Centenarian Study (1988 – 2007)
- Tao Liqun, China Research Center on Aging(CRCA)
The Research of the Determinants of Healthy Longevity of the Centenarians
- Yuan Ye and Zhang Qiuxia, CRCA.
Study on the birth order and the healthy longevity in Pengshan
4. Jean. M. Robine, IUSSP, Chair of Committee on Longevity and Health
Healthy Longevity: Past, Present, and Future Perspective
18:00 Reception by MeishanMunicipality
September 22th
8:45-10:30
Session 5：Society, environment and healthy aging
1.Jacquie Smith，Max Planck Institute for Human
Development
Aging differently: potential and limits
2. Lu Jiehua, PekingUniv.
Impacts of community environmental and socioeconomic characteristics on longevity
3. Li Jianxin, PekingUniv.
Research on social support and life satisfaction of the Chinese elderly
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:30
Session 5：Life style, family and healthy longevity
- Ki Ki King (South Korea)
A comparative study of population aging in Korea and Japan.
- Xu Qin, Wei Yanyan, and Yuan Ye, CRCA.
Family Longevity of theoldest old in Pengshan
3．Guo Zhenli，Gerontology Association of Dalian
Adhere to the Principles of Right and Truth, and One Can Keep Fitness and Longevity.
12:30 Lunch
14:00-15:45
Session 6: Intergenerational relations, living arrangement, and health at old ages
1.Edward Tu, Hong KongUniv. of Science & Technology
Living Arrangements and intergenerational Transfer: Health and LaterLife Events Effects
2. Wang Ping and Li Shuzhou, Xian Jiaotong Univ.
Longitudinal Survey onthe Living Arrangements of Older People in Rural China.
3. Zhang Zhen, MPIDR
The impact of intergenerational support on health of the elderly
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:40:
Session 7:Healthy aging and harmonious society
1.Gui Shixun, East China Normal Univ.
Differentials in health change among the elderly: A depth exploration of the follow-up survey in Shanghai
2. Liu Yuzhi and Danan Gu, PekingUniv.
Health and mortality difference between institutionalized elderly and community-residing elderly
3. Liu Gengchang & Sun Kuili Taishan Medical College, Shandong Province, Qiao Xiao Chun Peking Univ.
Thinking and Estimation of the Magnitude of Aged Poor Population in Shandong
18:00 Dinner
September 23
Group Visiting
9:00-11:00 PengzuMountain
11:00-12:00 Museum of Han Dynasty Cliff Graves
12:00 Lunch
14:30-17:00 Home visit of Centenarian
18:30 Banquet by PengshanCounty Government