Two months away from what she says is her 120th birthday, Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, a great-grandmother from the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is rushing to be recognized as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records .
The institution currently lists another Brazilian, Inah Canabarro Lucas, a nun from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, as the oldest person alive at 116 years old, but Deolira’s family and doctors are confident she will soon claim the title. religious woman.
“She’s not in the book yet, but she’s the oldest in the world according to the documents we have on her, as I found out recently,” said Deolira’s granddaughter, Doroteia Ferreira da Silva, who is half her age.
Documents show that Pedro da Silva was born on March 10, 1905, in the rural area of ​​Porciuncula, a small town in the state of Rio.
She now lives in a brightly painted house in Itaperuna, where her two granddaughters Doroteia, 60, and Leida Ferreira da Silva, 64, look after her.
The grandmother is also being watched by doctors and researchers who are interested in how she survived the average life expectancy in Brazil, which is currently 76.4 years, by more than four decades.
“Mrs. Deolira, in 2025, will be 120 years old. She is in good general health for her condition, she is not taking any medication,” said geriatrician Juair de Abreu Pereira, who frequently checks on Pedro da Silva and is assisting her family in the Guinness World Records process. .
In a statement, Guinness said it could not confirm receipt of Pedro da Silva’s application because it receives many from people around the world claiming to be the oldest person alive.
Major floods in the region almost twenty years ago destroyed most of Deolira’s original documents, her doctor said. This may pose a challenge to the official recognition of her age.
Even if her age is not exact, Pedro da Silva is certainly older than 100, according to Mateus Vidigal, a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo who studied her case as part of a project to understand Brazil’s super-aged population.
“Mrs. Deolira is not excluded from the study, but it has this fragility which is the lack of documentation that is approved by those organizations”, said Vidigal, referring to vetting institutions such as Guinness World Records.
Pedro Silva’s healthy diet and sleeping habits are the key to her longevity, according to Dr. Pereira.
To this day, she has a good interaction with her family and loves to eat bananas.
“I would like to reach her age and be like her,” said Ferreira da Silva, her granddaughter.
“While we have high blood pressure and diabetes, she has none of that.”
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