title: [Current insights into anemia in old age : Summary of the symposium "Anemia in old age" on the occasion of the annual congress of the German Society for Geriatrics (DGG) 2016 in Stuttgart].
abstract: Anemia in advanced age is often a multifactorial condition requiring an interdisciplinary approach. The contributions to the opening interdisciplinary symposium on anemia in older subjects focused on physiological and histopathological as well as on nephrological and neurogeriatric aspects and on the therapeutic implications of this underdiagnosed, yet highly frequent disease. The symposium was the kick-off event for the founding of the German Geriatric Society special interest group on anemia in advanced age.
authors.affiliation: Schwerpunkt Klinische Altersforschung der Klinik II für Innere Medizin, Uniklinik Köln, Köln, Deutschland. gabriele.roehrig@uk-koeln.de.|Klinik für Geriatrie, St. Marien Hospital, Kunibertskloster 11-13, 50668, Köln, Deutschland. gabriele.roehrig@uk-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Röhrig
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie, Uniklinik Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Ines
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gütgemann
authors.affiliation: Klinik II für Innere Medizin - QiN-Gruppe, Uniklinik Köln, Köln, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Gero
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: von Gersdorff
authors.affiliation: Schwerpunkt Klinische Altersforschung der Klinik II für Innere Medizin, Uniklinik Köln, Köln, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Polidori
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physiologie, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland.|Capio-Franz von Prümmer Klinik, Bad Brückenau, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lupescu
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physiologie, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.affiliation: Bonifatius Hospital Medizinische Klinik FB Geriatrie, Lingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kolb
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D000740:Anemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D015984:Causality; D000072817:Eryptosis / Q000502:physiology; D005853:Geriatrics; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D015995:Prevalence; D012955:Societies, Medical
keywords: Chronic kidney disease; Dementia; Eryptosis; Interprofessional approach; Multicausality