ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2024
Suicide After Partner's Death in the Elderly Population: Results From a Nationwide Cohort Study in Italy.
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- Late-life suicide trends in selected major countries worldwide in 1990-2022: a spatio-temporal analysis from the WHO mortality database.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Is Social Connection the Solution for Reducing Widower Suicide in Late Life?The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
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objectiveThis study aims to investigate the effect of partner loss on suicide mortality for surviving partners in the elderly Italian population and to explore differences according to sex and time elapsed since the loss.
designThis was a historical cohort study.
settingAll Italian residents registered by the 15th Italian Population Census (9 October 2011) were linked to emigration records and death certificates for 2012-2017 to track migration, vital status, and cause of death.
participants5,068,414 individuals living as a couple, as registered in the census, and aged ≥69 years on January 1, 2012. MEASUREMENTS: Mortality rate ratios (MRR) estimated through Poisson regression models were used to compare suicide mortality at age ≥75 years between subjects who experienced partner loss and those who did not.
resultsAmong people who experienced partner loss, there were 383 suicide deaths in men and 90 in women. Suicide mortality was higher in older men and women who experienced the loss compared to those who did not, and the impact of the spouse loss on mortality was stronger in men (age-adjusted MRR=2.83) than in women (1.41). Among men the excess risk was particularly high during the first year following the loss; in women, no substantial differences in the excess risk were observed over the follow-up period.
conclusionStudy findings provide evidence of the sex differences in the impact of spouse loss based on data from a large national cohort and reinforce the need for monitoring suicide risk in recently widowed older people.
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