The institution currently features another Brazilian, Inah Canabarro Lucas, a nun from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul as the oldest living person at 116 years, but Deolira's family and doctors are confident that she will soon take the religious woman's title.
The documents show that Pedro da Silva was born on March 10th 1905 in the rural area of Porciuncula, a small town in the state of Rio. She now lives in a colorfully painted house in Itaperuna, where her two granddaughters Doroteia, 60, and Leida Ferreira da Silva, 64, take care of her.
“Mrs. Deolira, in 2025, will be 120 years old. She is in a good general state of health for her condition, she is not taking any medication,“ said geriatric doctor Juair de Abreu Pereira, who checks up on Pedro da Silva frequently and is assisting her family in the process with Guinness World Records.
Major floods in the region almost twenty years ago destroyed most of Deolira's original documents, her doctor said. That may pose a challenge for the official recognition of her age.
“Mrs. Deolira has not been excluded from the study, but there is this fragility which is the lack of documentation that is approved by those organizations,“ Vidigal said, referring to vetting institutions such as the Guinness World Records.
“I wish I could get to her age and be like that,“ Ferreira da Silva, her granddaughter, said. “While we have high blood pressure and diabetes, she does not have any of that.”
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