The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Saturn Corporation, its United Auto Workers partners and many nonprofit health organizations recognize organ donation, focused on five points of life: organs, tissues, marrow, platelets, and blood.
The website has materials specifically designed for seniors: Any age is the right age to sign up as an organ, eye, and tissue donor. Donors have been in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond. The following materials were specially developed to address the questions that people over the age of 50 have about registering, donation, and transplantation.