Symptoms of malabsorption in the elderly are not simply due to their age, rather insufficient nutrition or disease processes are to be discussed. In the elderly, nutrition has to be adapted to a moderately reduced absorption of calcium and iron as well as to decreasing caloric needs with increasing age. Sufficient amounts of dietary vitamins and protein are strongly to be recommended. A variety of diseases that lead to clinical signs of malabsorption is presented.
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