The world’s oldest woman has turned 117 and says she doesn’t suffer at all

María Branyas, who in 2023 is the oldest person in the world, He turned 117 on Monday. Born in San Francisco, Spain, on March 4, 1907, she has lived in a nursing home for twenty years. She asked for two things to celebrate her birthday: that they bring her a cake and that her roommates give her a little job as they did in previous years.

According to daughter Rosa Moret, “it has been decreasing in recent months” and since last summer undergoes “a slow decline” even though “it doesn’t hurt him at all, he doesn’t have any disease”. Branyas is only two months away from becoming one of the ten oldest people in history, although he sees these documents as “nonsense”.

There are only 11 older than her in the entire story

According to the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which maintains the Guinness World Records list for longevity by verifying birth and death dates, Today there are eleven people who have lived longer than Branyas, all women and none of them are alive today.

By May 10, it will have risen to two, so it will enter the top 10. The same sources say that only four people have reached 118, and only one has surpassed 120: Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died at 122 years and 164 days in August 1997.

Branyas became the oldest person alive on January 17, 2023, when 118-year-old Frenchwoman Lucile Randon died.. According to the GRG, the second oldest person on the planet is Japanese Tomiko Itooka, who is a year younger than the Catalan.

He doesn’t give importance to the record

In any case, Branyas’ daughter, Rosa Moret, says that her mother is aware that there is no one in the world greater than her, but that she doesn’t care. “She says this has no merit to her or anyone else,” she explains, adding that her family didn’t expect her to live so many years. He also comments that “the world is very big and it is difficult to have the idea” that his mother is at the top of the longevity rankings on a planetary level.

Moret reveals that she has not been hospitalized, but that with age, she has recently lost her sight, hearing and recently also her memory, as well as her mobility, as she cannot walk alone. Nonetheless, Her mental faculties are intact and she can still hold conversations with her family, the only ones who will be able to see her besides the residence staff.. “She doesn’t do interviews or anything like that anymore, what she wants is tranquility,” says Rosa. Her mother spends the day sitting on the armchair in her room where she often receives attention from the professionals at the center.

Moret also explains that Branyas has seen all her friends die, but that surely one of the factors that led her to live so many years is “that she adapts a lot”. “When there is a death he is shocked, but after a short time he reacts by saying that it is like this, God wanted it like this, we have to adapt and we have to continue living”, he explains. In fact, resilience is a lesson Branyas has taught young people on several occasions, her daughter added.