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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Rod Minchin

New lease of life for 102-year-old woman after hip replacement

Joy back home in Exmouth, exercising with her walking frame (family handout/PA) -

A centenarian is enjoying a new lease of life after having a hip replacement – at the age of 102.

Joy Palfreman, who lives in Exmouth in Devon, is thought to be the oldest patient to be fitted with a new hip at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.

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