The world’s oldest man has died at the age of 112 in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Yasutaro Koide, who was born on 13 March 1903, was officially named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August this year. At the time he was quoted as saying his secret to long life was not smoking or drinking, not to overdo things and to “live with joy”.

He died of heart failure and pneumonia. It is not yet clear who succeeds him as the oldest man. The title of world’s oldest person is held by American woman Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 116 years old. She took the title last year after the death of Misao Okawa in Japan at the age of 117. The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment of France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997.

 What is Ageing??? 

• Ageing is an inevitable, irreversible process, but it is not necessarily negative.
• Our chronological age is the age that appears in our passports: the number of years we have lived. It’s the only objective measure. Our biological age, on the other hand, is the age we appear to have. For instance, there are ninety-year-olds who look twenty years younger.
• Inevitably, the ageing process is associated with illness. Rates of cancer, heart failure and dementia rise in older people. And as age increases, morbidity rates also increase, at least until the age of 80.
• Ageing is among the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases: of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds die from age-related causes.