great paper by Silvio C. Patricio
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
His study shows no evidence that the individual rate of aging has changed. Instead, it remains stable, suggesting that gains in life expectancy are more consistent with a later onset of senescence than with a slowing of its tempo.
Human aging is marked by a steady rise in the risk of dying with age–a process demographers call senescence. Over the past century, life expectancy...