{"id":232540,"date":"2020-10-12T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232540"},"modified":"2020-10-12T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:16:58","slug":"briton-down-syndrome-dies-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/briton-down-syndrome-dies-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Briton with Down syndrome dies at 78 after doctors said he wouldn’t live to be 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robin Smith, the oldest person<\/a> with Down syndrome in Britain, has passed away. He was 78 years old.<\/p>\n

Smith was born in 1941, at a time when most people with Down syndrome were institutionalized, and many of the medical conditions that people with Down syndrome are at higher risk for went untreated, which inevitably led to shorter lifespans. Instead, Smith grew up with his parents, Ivy and Sid, and his siblings, Elizabeth and Iain. According to Iain, Smith had lived at Northleigh Residential Home in Kettering since 1986, where he thrived and was loved by the staff.<\/p>\n

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