As featured in Time, on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, and Dateline, life lessons based on the landmark Harvard Medical School New England Centenarian Study. There are currently more than 50,000 centenarians in the U.S., almost three times the number there were in 1980. By the year 2030, the over-65 population will have grown at more than twice the rate of the general population growth. Through their research and study of "the oldest old" through the New England Centenarian Study (NECS), Drs. Perls and Silver see todays centenarians as forerunners of the most significant social trend of the new millennium: a greatly extended life span for millions of people; ninth and tenth decades of life filled with opportunity, lucidity, mobility, and good health. Drawing on the cutting-edge results of the NECS, Living to Be 100 sets forth the latest findings on aging, debunks popular myths, and portrays the lives of centenarians in an array of surprising richness and diversity: 101-year-old Alfred Benedetti bowls twice a week; Mrs. Strandel still runs her household at 100, and cooks for her 70-year-old son and daughter; 101-year-old former MIT professor Dirk Struik has just published an article on mathematics; Anna Morgan, 100, gives her daughter marital advice. Filled with personal profiles, informational sidebars, and quizzes, Living to Be 100 presents a groundbreaking, and hopeful vision of longevity -- soon to be a reality for more of us than ever before-- based on the only current medical and psychological study of the oldest old.