Recently the Scottish press announced that a 107 year old woman had died and donated her corneas, making her Scotland’s oldest organ donor. While this story is remarkable, in fact, organ donation programs worldwide regularly welcome and include older organ donors. Every year in the United States 8,000 people die while waiting for a donated organ. We need to encourage more people to donate, and that includes aging individuals. Current data has shown that 35% of US organ donors are over 50, but it’s likely that number could rise if older people realized that they too could donate despite their advancing age. To learn more about seniors and organ donation, Read This.