Suicidal thinking in community residents over eighty

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 337-343

  Rao, Rahul ^a,e   Dening, Tom ^b   Brayne, Carol ^c   Huppert, Felicia A ^d  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Community Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Depression; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATING SCALE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THINKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SICK ROLE; SUICIDE; THINKING;

EID: 0030933361     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199703)12:3<337::AID-GPS498>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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