[Clinical hematological symptoms of vitamin B deficiency in old age : Summarized overview of this year's symposium of the Working Group "Anemia in the Aged" on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Geriatric Society (DGG) in Frankfurt].

The interdisciplinary symposium of the working group "anemia in the aged" on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Society of Geriatrics focused this year on vitamin B deficiency in aged patients. Experts from hematopathology, clinical geriatrics and geriatric hematology presented the case of a 78-year-old woman and an interdisciplinary discussion was held on the epidemiology, clinical aspects as well as diagnostic and therapeutic steps. This article reviews the symposium on vitamin B deficiency in the aged in the context of the currently available literature.