ReviewMaturitas2014
Suicidal behaviour and suicide prevention in later life.
Review in Maturitas, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
- Multimorbidity patterns and mental health in late life: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.European geriatric medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Problem-Solving Therapy Reduces Suicidal Ideation In Depressed Older Adults with Executive Dysfunction.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Sex differences in lifetime suicide attempts in retired older adults between 2000 and 2021 in France: results from six national surveys.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Is access to euthanasia drugs and moral stress linked to suicide rates in veterinarians? A cross-sectional national survey and network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Suicide in later life: the role of frailty and depression.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Suicide in older adults in Honduras: a retrospective analysis (2008-2022).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exploration of related factors of suicide ideation in hospitalized older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870-1908.History of psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Association of Physical and Mental Illness and Self-Harm Resulting in Hospitalization: A Population-Based Study of Older Adults in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Suicidality and its Association with Quality of Life in Older Patients with Clinically Stable Psychiatric Disorders in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2022Article
- Self-inflicted injury and the older trauma patient: a 20 year review of suicide attempts and outcomes.European geriatric medicine · 2022Review
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- Analysis of Factors Associated with the Risk of Suicide in a Brazilian Capital: Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Suicide prevention in the covid-19 era.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Suicide in late life: A viewpoint.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Adverse Social Relationships in Childhood: Are there Links with Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Suicidality in Adulthood?Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
- Suicide prevention strategies for older persons-An integrative review of empirical and theoretical papers.Nursing open · 2021Review
- Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on suicide attempts : A retrospective analysis of the springtime admissions to the trauma resuscitation room at the Medical University of Vienna from 2015-2020.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2021Article
- Life weariness, suicidal thoughts and mortality: a sixteen-year longitudinal study among men and women older than 60 years.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite a general decline in late life suicide rates over the last 30 years, older people have the highest rates of suicide in most countries. In contrast, non-fatal suicidal behaviour declines with age and more closely resembles suicide than in younger age groups. There are difficulties in the detection and determination of pathological suicidal ideation in older people. Multiple factors increase suicide risk ranging from distal early and mid-life issues such as child abuse, parental death, substance misuse and traumatic life experiences to proximal precipitants in late life such as social isolation and health-related concerns. Clinical depression is the most frequently identified proximal mental health concern and in many cases is a first episode of major depression. Recent studies have identified changes on neuroimaging and neurocognitive factors that might distinguish suicidal from non-suicidal depression in older people. Strategies for suicide prevention need to be 'whole of life' and, as no single prevention strategy is likely to be successful alone, a multi-faceted, multi-layered approach is required. This should include optimal detection and management of depression and of high risk individuals as available evidence indicates that this can reduce suicidal behaviour. How best to improve the quality of depression management in primary and secondary care requires further research.
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