ArticleAging & mental health2016
Issues in research on aging and suicide.
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- Pooled it
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- Older People at Risk of Suicide: A Local Study During the COVID-19 Confinement Period.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Nonsuicidal self-injury in a cross-sectional community survey of New Zealand adults: Associations with demographic and psychological characteristics.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of pain on depression among middle-aged and older adult individuals in China: the chain mediation effect of self-rated health and life satisfaction.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Brief psychological intervention for suicide prevention based on problem-solving applied in different formats to people over 50 years old: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychogeriatric experts' experiences with risk factors of non-suicidal and suicidal self-injury in older adults: A qualitative study.Qualitative research in medicine & healthcare · 2024Article
- Late life anxiety and depression symptoms, and suicidal behaviors in racial/ethnic minority older adults in community-based organizations and community clinics in the U.S.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2024Article
- An elderly patient with depression and a suicide attempt during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case report.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Living Alone and Suicide Risk: A Complex Problem Requiring a Whole Population Approach.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- "It's a Living Experience": Bereavement by Suicide in Later Life.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Health care utilisation two years prior to suicide in Sweden: a retrospective explorative study based on medical records.BMC health services research · 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
- Determining the association between different living arrangements and depressive symptoms among over-65-year-old people: The moderating role of outdoor activities.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Suicidal Behavior Among Elderly Inpatients: its Relation to Functional Disability and Pain.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
- State Variation in Long-Term Care Availability, Regulation, and Cost and Suicide Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States: 2010-2015.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021Article
- Older Adults Who Experience Their Lives to Be Completed and No Longer Worth Living: A Systematic Mini-Review Into Used Terminology, Definitions, and Interpretations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Reliability and Validity of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report Scale in Older Adults With Depressive Symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The relationship between age and suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide among prisoners.Health & justice · 2020Article
- The Sense of Coherence, Self-Perception of Aging and the Occurrence of Depression Among the Participants of the University of the Third Age Depending on Socio-Demographic Factors.Clinical interventions in aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveLate-life suicide is a complex clinical and public health problem.
methodIn this article, some of the key complexities inherent in studying late-life suicide are discussed in the service of promoting high-quality late-life suicide prevention science.
resultsWe discuss the following research issues: the relatively greater lethality of suicidal behavior in later life (compared to younger ages); the lack of data on whether thoughts of death in later life are indicators of suicide risk; the fact that older adults do not tend to seek specialty mental health care, necessitating moving research into primary care clinics and the community; the lack of theory-based research in late-life suicide; the unclear role of cognitive impairment; and the promise of taking a 'patient centered' and 'participatory research' approach to late-life suicide research efforts.
conclusionWe believe that these perspectives are too often not capitalized upon in research on suicide prevention with older adults and that voice of the older person could contribute much to our understanding of why older adults think about and act on suicidal thoughts, as well as the most acceptable ways to reach and intervene with those at risk.
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