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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...
Hayley reached the age of 17, several years longer than many people with progeria ever do. Today a letter from the Prince of Wales paying tribute to Hayley's "infectious love of life" was read at her funeral in Bexhill.
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, from Bexhill, East Sussex, became known as the 100-year-old teenager through her efforts to raise awareness of progeria. Her mother, Kerry, announced Hayley's death on Thursday...
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.
15 kwi 2015 · About 250 mourners wearing brightly-coloured clothes attend the funeral of 17-year-old progeria sufferer Hayley Okines.
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...
