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Original Article

Suicide and the elderly

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Pages 3-17
Received 13 May 1997
Accepted 17 Oct 1997
Published online: 12 Jul 2009
 

Impending demographic changes mean that the proportion of the elderly in the population will increase. Suicide rates increase with age. The literature on elderly suicide, with emphasis on methodology, cross-national rates and trends, correlates, cultural factors, location and method, attempted suicides and prevention, is critically reviewed in this paper.

 

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