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Hayley Leanne Okines (3 December 1997 – 2 April 2015) was an English author and activist who was a sufferer of the extremely rare aging disease progeria. [3] [4] She was known for spreading awareness of the condition.
3 kwi 2015 · Hayley Okines and her family had campaigned to raise awareness of her condition. A girl with a rare genetic condition which made her body age eight times faster than normal has died at the age of...
4 kwi 2015 · A courageous girl from the UK who raised awareness of a rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging – progeria – has died aged 17. “Hayley was a pioneer – and one of the reasons that we...
4 kwi 2015 · The teenager who won the nation’s hearts while suffering from rare premature ageing disorder progeria, which gave her the body of a 104-year-old, died on Thursday. Just hours earlier she had blown...
3 kwi 2015 · Teenager Hayley Okines who suffered from a rare premature aging disorder that gave her the body of a 104-year-old has died. Tributes have poured in for the 17-year-old who was born with the...
15 kwi 2015 · Hayley Okines, 17, died in East Sussex earlier this month from progeria, which causes sufferers to age eight times faster than normal.
We featured Hayley Okines a number of times on this programme - a young woman who faced the difficulties life threw at her with a great deal of humour...
