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| Completed suicide at age 50 and over | | Author(s) | Yeates Conwell, Melanie Rotenberg, Eric D Caine |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 38, no 6, June 1990 |
| Pages | pp 640-644 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors present data abstracted from medical examiners' investigative reports of 246 reported American suicides of over 50s classified into four age groups. The sample population conformed to epidemiological studies with regard to sex distribution. With increasing age, more suicide victims were widowed, and significantly fewer were single, separated or divorced. Violent methods of suicide were more prevalent, and alcohol use and psychiatric histories less common with ageing. Physical illness and loss became the most common definable precipitants of suicide, whereas job, financial and family relationship problems became less frequent with increasing age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-901202009 A |
| Classmark | EV: 7T |
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