1. Geography of Italian Centenarians and Semi-Supercentenarians: Statistical Evidences in Territorial Longevity Differences • Giorgia Capacci, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Graziella Caselli , Sapienza Università di Roma; Marco Battaglini, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Silvia Capuano, Italian National Institute of Statistics; Gianni Corsetti, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT).

2. New Trend in the Old-Age Mortality: Mortality Deceleration Fading Away • Natalia S. Gavrilova , University of Chicago; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago.

3. Swedish Mortality Does Not Decelerate in Recent Cohorts • Roland Rau , University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Marcus Ebeling, Karolinska Institutet; Torsten Sauer, University of Rostock; Karin Modig, Karolinska Institutet; Anders Ahlbom, Karolinska Institutet.

4. The Association of Military Rank with Oldest-Old Survival in Military Academy Graduates • Ronny Westerman , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University; Ulrich O. Mueller, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

5. Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors among Centenarians in Nanjing, China: A Cross-Sectional Study • Xin Xu , Nanjing Normal Univerisity.