article_snippet.sent: French born Jeanne Calment currently holds the record, having lived to age 122.5.
article_snippet.sent: Already, a number of supercentenarians are candidates to best Calment's record.
article_snippet.sent: The oldest verifiable supercentenarians living now are Jeralean Talley, at 115 years, and Susannah Mushatt Jones, also at 115 years.
article_snippet.sent: One of the oldest supercentenarians living today is Jeralean Talley, at 115 years old.
article_snippet.sent: For example, life expectancy hit an all time high of nearly 79 years-old in 2014 in America according to a report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
article_snippet.sent: Additionally, Britain's oldest person, Ethel Lang, just died at the age of 114.