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| Physical vulnerability and fatal self-harm in the elderly | | Author(s) | Michael Eddleston, Mathisha Disanayake, M H Rezvi Sheriff |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 189, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 278-279 |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Poisoning ; At risk ; Sri Lanka. |
| Annotation | Although the high rate of suicide in older people is conventionally explained as being due to greater intent to do so, the authors have noted older Sri Lankans dying after relatively mild poisoning. Using data from cases of yellow oleander poisoning, they investigated the effect of age on outcomes in 1697 patients, controlling for gender and amount ingested. In fully adjusted models, people aged 65+ were 13.8 times more likely to die than those aged under 25. The high numbers of suicides in older people globally is likely to be due, in part, to the difficulty they face in surviving the effects of both the poisoning and its treatment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061106220 A |
| Classmark | EV: OLH: CA3: 7FF |
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