Tag: supercentenarians
Supercentenarians are eight times more numerous in these two departments, a reason given
Supercentenarians, people over the age of 110, are increasingly numerous in France. They are mainly present in two departments. According to one study by the National Institute of Demographic Studies…
Who are the French super-centenarians?
We are living longer and longer in France, and the number of centenarians is increasing, as is their number of years, making some of them “super-centenarians”. The record is Jeanne…
At 110 years old, “I’m holding on”: lives of supercentenarians
For her 118th birthday on Friday, Sister André, one of the oldest women in the world, wishes to “die quickly”. In her retirement home in the south of France, she…