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| Social inclusion affects elderly suicide mortality | | Author(s) | Andriy Yur`yev, Louri Leppik, Liina-Mai Tooding |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 22, no 8, December 2010 |
| Pages | pp 1337-1343 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg doi: 10.1017/S1041610210001614 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Death rate [statistics] ; Retirement age ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Correlation ; Cross cultural surveys ; Eastern Europe ; Western Europe. |
| Annotation | National attitudes towards older people and their association with suicide mortality in the old in 26 European countries were assessed, and Eastern and Western European countries compared. For each country, mean age-adjusted, gender-specific older people's suicide rates in the last five years for which data had been available were obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) European Mortality Database. Questions about citizens' attitudes towards older people were taken from the European Social Survey. Correlations between attitudes and suicide rates were analysed using Pearson's test. Differences between mean scores for Western and Eastern European attitudes were calculated, and data on labour market exit ages were obtained from the EUROSTAT database. The perception of older people as having higher status, recognition of their economic contribution and higher moral standards, and friendly feelings towards and admiration of them are inversely correlated with suicide mortality. Suicide rates are lower in countries where older people live with their families more often. Older suicide mortality and labour market exit age are inversely correlated. In Eastern European countries, older people's status and economic contribution are seen as less important. Western Europeans regard older people with more admiration, consider them more friendly, and more often have older relatives in the family. The data also show gender differences. Society's attitudes influence elderly suicide mortality; attitudes towards the elderly are more favourable among Western European citizens; and extended labour market inclusion of older people is a suicide protective factor. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101116006 A |
| Classmark | EV: S5: G5A: TOB: 49: 3KA: 7A: 76 |
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