Suicide in older people without psychiatric disorder.

Journal article

OBJECTIVE: To determine the psychological characteristics and nature of life problems, including physical illness, in people 60 years and over dying through suicide in the absence of psychiatric disorder. METHODS: Psychological autopsy interviews with relatives and friends for 23 people aged 60 years or over who had died through suicide and did not have a psychiatric disorder at the time of death. RESULTS: Three (13%) of the sample had significant psychiatric symptoms, one had a diagnosis of...

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Authors: Harwood, D; Hawton, K; Hope, T; Jacoby, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: International journal of geriatric psychiatry
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 363-367
• Publication date: 2006-04-01
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.1473
• EISSN: 1099-1166
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• Language: English
• Keywords: England; Risk Factors; Bereavement; Male; Humans; Female; Suicide; Personality Disorders; Comorbidity; Aged, 80 and over; Mental Disorders; Aged; Middle Aged