title: [Recent problems of advanced age in humans. I. General problems].
abstract: The obvious increase of human age even up to above one hundred years in nearly all civilised countries leeds the autor to discuss the following actual gerontologic problems: the needs for further splitting of categories of high age, the reasons for the rapid increase of the oldest-old group and the predicted "mushroom"-shaped age-pyramid in Germany. Further subjects are the liability of age-declaration in the highest age group according to the strict directions by Kannisto, the total account of men and women above one hundred years of age in different countries and in Germany since 1963, the difference between relative and absolute longevity and new molecular-biologic and genetic studies on extreme age.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Franke
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends; D008297:Male; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth