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Nursing home suicides — a psychological autopsy study
Author(s)	Kirsi Suominen, Markus Henriksson, Erkki Isometsä
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 12, December 2003
Pages	pp 1095-1101
Source	http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Keywords	Suicide ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Finland.
Annotation	Older people comprise a fifth of all suicides, but little information has been available about suicides in nursing homes. The present study described all suicides among older people in nursing homes in Finland over a 12-month period, emphasising the factors that have been found to be associated with suicide in the general older population. 12 such suicides were identified from all 1307 suicides in Finland over the year, who were found to to have suffered highly comorbid somatopsychiatric disorders. Early recognition of both somatic and mental disorders - particularly depression as well as suicide risk in nursing home residents - are needed in order to prevent suicide. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040301209 A
Classmark	EV: KX: LHB: 76L
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