@vernonx Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect.

Each transplant center seems to have their own parameters as far as transplant policies. Their policies can include the general health of kidney transplant recipients, medication compliancy, emotional/mental health status, and even age. They strive for the best outcome for each patient, and want to ensure as successful a procedure as possible.

I am not sure where CPMC is, but have you checked with any other transplant centers? Many times a kidney patient will list at more than one center. My husband listed at two, and received his transplant at the second one.
As for your age, studies have shown that an optimal outcome is not always limited by age, and that at 80+ years of age, a transplant recipient can still look forward to a quality of life better than no transplant.

Do you have a living donor in mind? What is the cause of your kidney disease? Those factors may come in to play, also.
Ginger