Predictors of suicide in the old elderly

Gerontology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 328-334

  Waern, Margda ^a,b   Rubenowitz, Eva ^a   Wilhelmson, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; SENESCENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; VICTIM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0042887456     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071715     Document Type: Article

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