Gjonca, Arjan; Brockmann, Hilke; Maier, Heiner - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 1
decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women as … well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable … decreases in East Germany did not become evident until the late 1980s. Yet, the East German mortality decline accelerated after …
