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| Deploying an ecological model to stem the rising tide of firearm suicide in older age | | Author(s) | Brian P Kaskie, Carol Leung, Mark S Kaplan |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol 28, no 4, October-December 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, October-December 2016 |
| Pages | pp 233-245 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Suicide ; At risk ; General practice ; Policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the United State, a central objective of the Surgeon General's National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is to focus on older adults. The authors review individual risk factors for suicide in late life, and then introduce an ecological model to expand conceptualisation of older person suicide. First, they look at the role of firearms, provide evidence that firearm availability increases the means of suicide in older people, and that gun access policies can contribute to reducing risk. Next, they focus on primary care providers, documenting how older adults often come into contact with these professionals before ending their lives, and how these providers could take a more active role in mediating individual-level risk factors. They then turn their attention to the intersection between gun access and primary care, and consider how advancing standards of care concerning gun access and suicide risk might be an effective policy alternative for blocking the pathway to suicide among older adults. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170106213 A |
| Classmark | EV: CA3: L5: QAD: 7T |
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