Emma Morano received the news Friday morning that Susannah Mushatt Jones, a New York woman several months her senior, had died Thursday evening, making Morano the world’s oldest known person at 116.
Upon hearing of her new title, she said: “My word, I’m as old as the hills,” a caregiver, Rosi Santoni, told the Telegraph.
The Italian supercentenarian was born in the Piedmont region of northern Italy on Nov 29, 1899. She lives now in a small lakeside town near the Switzerland border, still in her own one-bedroom home. Doctors make house calls, but for a 116-year-old, her health is good.
As a teenager, a doctor told her to eat raw eggs for her anemia, and so she has every day since, according to a New York Times profile in 2015. She also eats minced meat and pasta daily.
Meet the last living person born in the 1800s
14 May 2016
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The oldest living person in the world, and the only one left who has touched three centuries, is a raw-egg-eating, brandy-drinking Italian woman who credits her long life to her daily eggs, her early bedtime and being single, Azvision.az reports citing the Washingotn Post.
