Late onset suicide: Distinction between "young-old" vs. "old-old" suicide victims. How different populations are they?

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 136-139

  Paraschakis, Antonios ^a   Douzenis, Athanassios ^b   Michopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Christodoulou, Christos ^b   Vassilopoulou, Konstantina ^b   Koutsaftis, Filippos ^c   Lykouras, Lefteris ^b  

^a Psychiatric Hospital of Attika Dafni   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c MINISTRY OF JUSTICE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Behavior of elderly; Late onset suicide; Suicide elderly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; AUTOPSY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VICTIM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; SUICIDE;

EID: 80054932979     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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