Anemia in Older Ages

Anemia is defined as a low hemoglobin level and blood count. By the World Health Organization definition, it is a measurement of hemoglobin less than 13g/dl in men and less than 12g/dl in women. Anemia is a common condition in aging and is present in more than 10 percent of all people older than age 65 and up to 50 percent of those elderly in nursing homes. While lower levels are somewhat expected as we age and our metabolic demand isn’t as high, evidence is increasing that there is a definite increase in both mortality and morbidity in untreated anemia.

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