Age Requirements For Donating Blood Video

Blood donations save lives. Learn the oldest and youngest age that you can donate blood in this free video clip from a blood donation center.

About this Author

Barry Hooker has been working for the American Red Cross for 25 years. Currently, he is the director of recruitment for his region.

Right now the state of North Carolina, any person giving blood must be minimum age of 17 years old, some states however are using 16 years old, so be sure to check with your local group to see what the local age requirements is for you in your local area, but right now it is 17, it's just an arbitrary number, the state have determined eligibility for adequate to make the determination you can give blood, right now 17 years old for the state of North Carolina. You can't be too old to give blood, the American Red Cross have on upper age limit, it has changed 2 or 3 times in my 25 years hear, most recent about 15 years ago we did draw up the upper age limit because living longer, their living healthier lives, more active as they get older, so there's no need, to exclude, that donor group that's a visile donor group, so they are more popular donor group, is world war 2 vets, people coming out of that area, are always great blood donor, they are still great blood donors, so we take them, there is no upper age limit to give blood for the red cross.

Age Requirements for Donating Blood Video

About this Author