"Newman argues that the real secret is that many of these super-senior citizens exist only on paper... there was a 69-82% fall in supercentenarians recorded. Maybe birth certificates harm our health or, more plausibly, they cleanse dodgy data."
"Newman’s work on Europe shows super-oldies are correlated with how rich a region is. But not in the way you'd expect: poorer and deprived places record most people living to the oldest ages odd, when those regions have terrible health outcomes on every other metric."
"Despite having high poverty and the lowest proportion of people aged 90+, Tower Hamlets somehow records more people aged 105+ per capita than anywhere else in England. Corsica is apparently stuffed full of the super-old, yet is very poor..."
"Pension fraud, because deprived areas create financial pressures, not greater longevity. Something to think, but not laugh, about."
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