منابع مشابه
Late-life suicide.
Suicide rates for older people are increasing worldwide, thereby creating a major public health concern. There has been an absence of public policy and research interest in this area, although the needs are pressing and promise to be even more so. Besides the fact that a worldwide aging population means more older people, and thus more late-life suicides, the percentage of older people who kill...
متن کاملRole of alcohol in late-life suicide.
Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States, ranking 10th to 12th annually, depending on the year. Rates of suicide increase markedly among Americans over age 75, especially among white men. After age 85, rates are >5-fold higher in this group than in the general population. The relationship between alcohol use and later-life suicide is complex and currently ill defined. S...
متن کاملThe relationship between suicide ideation and late-life depression.
OBJECTIVE To describe the course of suicide ideation (SI) in primary-care based late-life depression treatment, identify predictors of SI, characterize the dynamic relationship between depression and SI, and test the hypothesis that collaborative care decreases the likelihood of reporting SI by decreasing the severity of depressive symptoms. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of a randomiz...
متن کاملReward signals, attempted suicide, and impulsivity in late-life depression.
IMPORTANCE—Suicide can be viewed as an escape from unendurable punishment at the cost of any future rewards. Could faulty estimation of these outcomes predispose to suicidal behavior? In behavioral studies, many of those who have attempted suicide misestimate expected rewards on gambling and probabilistic learning tasks.OBJECTIVES—To describe the neural circuit abnormalities that underlie disad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Psychogeriatrics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1041-6102,1741-203X
DOI: 10.1017/s104161029200098x