Europes oldest person lives in Portugal and has just turned 115, Maria de Jesus was born on Sept 10th 1893. On her 100th birthday Maria decided that she wanted to learn to read and write, a teacher visited for a few months but she never did manage to learn.
The oldest person in the world is American Edna Parker, born April 20th 1893. Apart from Biblical counts, the oldest person to have lived was a french woman, Jeanne louise Calment who lived to be 122, ( 21st Feb 1875 - 4th August 1997 )
In France people buy the apartments of living people, pay them annuities (e. g., a certain sum per month), and then move in when the owner dies. Good deal if the person dies soon after one makes the purchase. Jeanne Calment was a heroine to the parsimonious French because she sold her apartment twice; she outlived by two years the person who bought it from her first.
When she turned 120, reporters asked about her wrinkles. Her wit and vanity did not age; she bristled, "I have only one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it." Not bad at 120!

Some people have claimed to be older but the documents are a bit dubious.

As long as mankind doesn't obliterate itself, ages like these should become the norm through all the advances in science. All we need is world wide peace. A place where humanity lives in unity, all caring for each others needs. It is possible if we all individually desire to create a society where caring for our neighbour is the norm. the alternative to this way forward doesn't bare thinking about.