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Individual fracture treatment is tailored depending on bone quality, skin conditions, comorbidities, and functional demand of the patient. This article provides a review of current techniques to obtain stable fixation despite poor bone quality. To avoid complications, it is imperative to consider and treat comorbidities such as diabetes and osteoporosis. In the absence of severe systemic comorbidities, the results after open reduction and internal fixation of malleolar fractures in patients above and below 60 years of age are nearly identical, while nonoperative treatment of unstable fractures leads to significantly inferior outcomes. Therefore, the general indications for surgery in elderly patients should not differ from those in younger patients. However, it is essential to detect severe conditions such as Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy because these require a completely different treatment regime, and standard internal fixation will invariably fail in these patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Cite this article: Rammelt S. Management of ankle fractures in the elderly. EFORT Open Rev 2016;1:239-246. 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