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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...
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.
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. Hayley, of Bexhill, was told she would not live beyond the...
Tributes have been paid today to Hayley Okines, the Bexhill teenager who brought the rare gene disorder Progeria to worldwide attention. Her battle...
