Inkster Woman Declared Oldest Person In the World

Getting older isn't easy.

Becoming the oldest person in the world, well, that always seems like an impossibility.

Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press reports that gerontology experts have declared Jeralean Talley of Inksker the oldest known person in the world. She'll turn 116 on May 23.

The Freep reports that Talley got that title after Gertrude Weaver, the world's oldest person for just five days, died Monday in Arkansas at age 116.