Over 70'S Can Donate Blood Again.

[silka]

Good news for them that do donate.

[Peter Pedant]

yes let me thank the donors
( not myself - hepatitis from Egypt forty y ag0)

[silka]

Yes they all do a great job

[dannyk13]

Have things changed? I was a blood donor but,as with others, could not give blood after reaching 65 years of age.

[silka]

No if you had been a donor for many many years they let you give blood still after 70 because they knew your history

[dannyk13]

silka, Then things have changed since I was a donor, as I said,there was an age limit of 65.

[silka]

A friend who turned 70 last October has been able to donate. We are in the SE. They said she had to stop with the coronavirus but got a letter this morning to let her donate in September.

[riptide]

Is this in the Uk because I’ve not heard of it, law must have changed because it always stopped at 65

[Mamyalynne]

Ignoring the recent stoppage due to CV19 for a moment - over 70s were allowed to continue donating blood from 2008.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/3776442/Over-70s-now-allowed-to-give-blood.html

[silka]

Thanks mamy x