Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder causes faster changes in mood than other types of bipolar disorder. A person with this type may have four or more episodes of major depression, mania, hypomania, or mixed symptoms within a year.
Since the death of 117-year-old Emma Morano of Italy on 15 April 2017, 117-year-old Violet Brown of Jamaica, born 10 March 1900, is the oldest living person in the world whose age has been documented.
Meet the World's New Oldest Living Person. The last two known people on Earth born in 1898 have passed away just five days apart, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Following the death of 117-year-old Japanese woman Misao Okawa last Wednesday, Gertrude Weaver of Camden, Ark., became the world's new oldest living person at 116 years old.