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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...
Sadly she died earlier this month and her funeral was held today. Her condition caused her to age prematurely. Hayley reached the age of 17, several years longer than many people with progeria ever do.
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...
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...
Tributes have been paid today to Hayley Okines, the Bexhill teenager who brought the rare gene disorder Progeria to worldwide attention. Her battle with the condition which causes extreme premature ageing was an inspiration to other sufferers and there have been many tributes to her.
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.
