The world’s oldest person, Lucile Randon, a nun also known as Sister André died in her sleep on 17 January at her nursing home in Toulon, France, at the age of 118 years, 340 days. She became the world’s oldest person after the death last April of Kane Tanaka, a 119-year-old Japanese woman. Sister André had previously made the record books in 2021 as the oldest person to recover from Covid, and, although blind and a wheelchair user, continued to help care for other elderly people in her nursing
