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Criteria to Donate Blood
Age Requirements for Donating Blood
Testing Blood Before Donations
Blood Transfusion Requirements
Blood Donations & Cancer Patients
Components of Human Blood Donations
Automated Blood Donation Collection
Blood Donation Intervals
Heart & Lung Disease in Donating Blood
Blood Donation Questionnaire
Tattoos & Blood Donations
Medications & Blood Donations
Travel & Blood Donations
Blood Donation Nutrition
Reasons to Donate Blood
Blood Donation Demands
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Barry Hooker has been working for the American Red Cross for 25 years, and he has held various positions. Currently, he is the director of recruitment for his region. He has a vast...read more
"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."
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