I had always hoped that the improved healthcare of the 20th and 21st centuries would enable the supercentenarians to keep pushing the boundary for this record,

I had always hoped that the improved healthcare of the 20th and 21st centuries would enable the supercentenarians to keep pushing the boundary for this record, but nobody is getting close to Jean Calment’s record of 122 (I’m aware it’s been disputed, and the continued lack of peers is either more reason to doubt it, or a challenge to the perception of modernity as healthy).