Suicide in later life: A comparison between cases with early-onset and late-onset depression

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 185-191

  Voshaar, Richard C Oude ^a,b,c   Kapur, Nav ^a   Bickley, Harriet ^a   Williams, Alyson ^a   Purandare, Nitin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aged; Aged, 80 years and over; Early onset depression; Inquiry case; Late onset depression; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CODEINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; LITHIUM; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOMUTILATION; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DROWNING; EARLY ONSET DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JUMPING; LATE ONSET DEPRESSION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL HOSPITAL; ONSET AGE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SELF POISONING; STABBING HEADACHE; STRANGULATION; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; WALES;

EID: 79958125659     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. G.S. Alexopoulos Depression in the elderly Lancet 365 2005 1961 1970 (Pubitemid 40797508)
2. G.S. Alexopoulos, C.F. Reynolds III, M.L. Bruce, I.R. Katz, P.J. Raue, and B.H. Mulsant The PROSPECT Group. Reducing suicidal ideation and depression in older primary care patients: 24-month outcomes of the PROSPECT study American Journal of Psychiatry 166 2009 882 890
3. L. Appleby, J. Shaw, T. Amos, R. McDonnell, K. Kiernan, and S. Davies Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health services: national clinical survey British Medical Journal 318 1999 1235 1239 (Pubitemid 29210051)
4. L. Appleby, J. Shaw, J. Sherrat, T. Amos, J. Robinson, and R. McDonnell Safety first: five-year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into suicide and homicide by people with mental illness 2001 Department of Health London
5. P.A. Arean, P. Raue, R.S. Mackin, D. Kanellopoulos, C. McCulloch, and G.S. Alexopoulos Problem-solving therapy and supportive therapy in older adults with major depression and executive dysfunction American Journal of Psychiatry 167 2010 1391 1398
6. R.C. Baldwin Is vascular depression a distinct sub-type of depressive disorder? A review of causal evidence International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 20 2005 1 11 (Pubitemid 40089558)
7. M. Bauer, A. Forsthoff, C. Baethge, M. Adli, A. Berghöfer, and S. Döpfmer Lithium augmentation therapy in refractory depression - update 2002 European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 253 2003 132 139 (Pubitemid 37205472)
8. H. Brodaty, G. Luscombe, G. Parker, K. Wilhelm, I. Hickie, and M.P. Austin Early and late onset depression in old age: different aetiologies, same phenomenology Journal of Affective Disorders 66 2001 225 236 (Pubitemid 32907529)
9. H. Brodaty, G. Luscombe, G. Parker, K. Wilhelm, and I. Hickie Early and late onset depression in old age: different aetiologies, same phenomenology Journal of Affective Disorders 66 2006 225 236 (Pubitemid 32907529)
10. M.L. Bruce, G.J. McAvay, P.J. Raue, E.L. Brown, and B.S. Meyers Major depression in elderly home health care patients American Journal of Psychiatry 159 2002 1367 1374 (Pubitemid 34832719)
11. A.G. Bulloch, J.V. Williams, D.H. Lavorato, and S.B. Patten The relationship between major depression and marital disruption is bidirectional Depression and Anxiety 26 2009 1172 1177
12. H.F.K. Chiu, P.S.F. Yip, I. Chi, S. Chan, J. Tsoh, and C.W. Kwan Elderly suicide in Hong Kong - a case-controlled psychological autopsy study Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 109 2004 299 305 (Pubitemid 38406712)
13. A. Cipriani, H. Pretty, K. Hawton, and J. Geddes Lithium in the prevention of suicidal behavior and all-cause mortality in patients with mood disorders: a systematic review of randomized trials American Journal of Psychiatry 162 2005 1805 1809
14. Y. Conwell, P.R. Duberstein, C. Cox, J.H. Herrmann, N.T. Forbes, and E.D. Caine Relationships of age and axis I diagnoses in victims of completed suicide: a psychological autopsy study American Journal of Psychiatry 153 1996 1001 1008 (Pubitemid 26264699)
15. E. Corruble, P. Gorwood, and B. Falissard Association between age of onset and symptom profiles of late-life depression Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia 118 2008 389 394
16. M.J. Crawford, O. Thomas, N. Khan, and E. Kulinskaya Psychosocial interventions following self-harm. Systematic review of their efficacy in preventing suicide British Journal of Psychiatry 190 2007 11 17 (Pubitemid 46121496)
17. J.K. Djernes Prevalence and predictors of depression in populations of elderly: a review Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 113 2006 372 387
18. E. Ephraim, and R. Prettyman Attitudes of old age psychiatrists in England and Wales to the use of mood stabilizer drugs International Psychogeriatrics 21 2009 576 580
19. A. Fiske, J.L. Wetherell, and M. Gatz Depression in older adults Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 5 2009 363 389
20. D. Gunnell, N. Middleton, E. Whitley, D. Dorling, and S. Frankel Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly? A time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998 Social Science and Medicine 57 2003 595 611 (Pubitemid 36765357)
21. K. Hawton, and J. Fagg Deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury in older people International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 5 1990 367 373
22. K. Hawton, and L. Harriss How often does deliberate self-harm occur relative to each suicide? A study of variation by age and gender Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 38 2008 650 660
23. K. Hawton, and K. van Heeringen Suicide Lancet 373 2009 1372 1381
24. I.M. Hunt, N. Kapur, J. Robinson, J. Shaw, S. Flynn, and H. Bailey Suicides within 12 months of contact with mental health services in different age and diagnostic groups: a national clinical survey British Journal of Psychiatry 188 2006 135 142 (Pubitemid 43171069)
25. L.V. Kessing, L. Sondergard, K. Kvist, and P.K. Anderson Suicide risk in patients treated with lithium Archives of General Psychiatry 62 2005 860 866 (Pubitemid 41126880)
26. R.M. Kok, D. Vink, T.J. Heeren, and W.A. Nolen Lithium augmentation compared with phenelzine in treatment-resistant depression in the elderly: an open, randomized controlled trial Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 68 2007 1177 1185 (Pubitemid 47395619)
27. K.R. Krishnan, J.C. Hays, L.A. Tupler, L.K. George, and D.G. Blazer Clinical and phenomenological comparisons of late-onset and early-onset depression American Journal of Psychiatry 152 1995 785 788
28. D. Lawrence, P. Almeida, G.K. Hulse, A.V. Jablensky, and C.D. Holman Suicide and attempted suicide among older adults in Western Australia Psychological Medicine 30 2000 813 821 (Pubitemid 30623966)
29. K.R. Lindsley, K. Schapira, and T.P. Kelly Open verdict v. suicide - importance to research British Journal of Psychiatry 178 2001 465 468 (Pubitemid 32436814)
30. National Collaborationg Centre for Mental Health Depression in adults (update). NICE 2009 http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/Depression-Update-FULL- GUIDELINE.pdf 2009
31. J. Neeleman, and S. Wessely Changes in classification of suicide in England and Wales; time trends and associations with coroner's professional background Psychological Medicine 27 1997 467 472 (Pubitemid 27139978)
32. I. O'Donnell, and R. Farmer The limitations of official suicide statistics British Journal of Psychiatry 166 1995 458 461
33. C. Pritchard, and L. Hansen Comparison of suicide in people aged 65-74 and 75+ by gender in England and Wales and the major Western countries 1979-1999 International Journal of Geriatriac Psychiatry 20 2005 17 25 (Pubitemid 40089560)
34. S. Stack, and I. Wasserman Gender and suicide risk: the role of wound site Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 39 2009 13 20
35. J. Unützer, L. Tang, S. Oishi, W. Katon, J.W. Williams Jr.; and E. Hunkeler Reducing suicidal ideation in depressed older primary care patients Journal of the American Geriatric Society 54 2006 1550 1556 (Pubitemid 44564150)
36. M. Valenstein, J.F. McCarthy, K.L. Austin, J.F. Greden, E.A. Young, and F.C. Blow What happened to lithium? Antidepressant augmentation in clinical settings American Journal of Psychiatry 163 2006 1219 1225 (Pubitemid 44464450)
37. A. Värnik, K. Kõlves, C.M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, A. Marusic, and H. Oskarsson Suicide methods in Europe: a gender-specific analysis of countries participating in the "European Alliance Against Depression" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62 2008 545 551 (Pubitemid 351731640)
38. P. Wiener, G.S. Alexopoulos, T. Kakuma, B.S. Meyers, E. Rosendhal, and J. Chester The limits of history taking in geriatric depression American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 5 1997 116 125 (Pubitemid 27157395)
39. World Health Organization The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders 1992 WHO Geneva
40. S. Zisook, I. Lesser, J.W. Stewart, S.R. Wisniewski, G.K. Balasubramani, and M. Fava Effect of age of onset on the course of major depressive disorder American Journal of Psychiatry 164 2007 1539 1546 (Pubitemid 350069733)