Gun Access and Safety Practices among Older Adults

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lum, Hillary D ^a,b   Flaten, Hanna K ^b   Betz, Marian E ^b  

^a Eastern Colorado VA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959449182     PISSN: 16877063     EISSN: 16877071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/2980416     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. B. Mertens and S. B. Sorenson, "Current considerations about the elderly and firearms," American Journal of PublicHealth, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 396-400, 2012.
2. A. L. Kellermann, F. P. Rivara, G. Somes et al., "Suicide in the home in relation to gun ownership," The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 327, no. 7, pp. 467-472, 1992.
3. L. Hepburn, M. Miller, D. Azrael, and D. Hemenway, "The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey," Injury Prevention, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 15-19, 2007.
4. R. Butkus, R. Doherty, and H. Daniel, "Reducing firearmrelated injuries and deaths in the United States: executive summary of a policy position paper fromthe American College of Physicians," Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 160, no. 12, pp. 858-860, 2014.
5. M. Miller, D. Azrael, D. Hemenway, and M. Vriniotis, "Firearm storage practices and rates of unintentional firearm deaths in the United States," Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 661-667, 2005.
6. C. W. Barber and M. J. Miller, "Reducing a suicidal person's access to lethal means of suicide: A research agenda," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 47, no. 3, supplement 2, pp. S264-S274, 2014.
7. M. Miller, C. Barber, R. A. White, and D. Azrael, "Firearms and suicide in the United States: is risk independent of underlying suicidal behavior?" American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 178, no. 6, pp. 946-955, 2013.
8. M. Miller, S. J. Lippmann, D. Azrael, and D. Hemenway, "Household firearmownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States," Journal of Trauma-Injury, Infection and Critical Care, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1029-1034, 2007.
9. M. Narayan, "Guns and nurses," American Journal of Nursing, vol. 114, no. 1, p. 11, 2014.
10. E. M. Pinholt, J. D. Mitchell, J. H. Butler, and H. Kumar, "'Is there a gun in the home?' assessing the risks of gun ownership in older adults," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 1142-1146, 2014.
11. S. Frattaroli, D. W. Webster, and G. J. Wintemute, "Implementing a public health approach to gun violence prevention: the importance of physician engagement," Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 158, no. 9, pp. 697-698, 2013.
12. M. B. Kapp, "Geriatric patients, firearms, and physicians," Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 159, no. 6, pp. 421-422, 2013.
13. R. M. Johnson, T. Coyne-Beasley, and C. W. Runyan, "Firearm ownership and storage practices, U. S. households, 1992-2002. A systematic review," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 173-182, 2004.
14. United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Second injury control and risk survey (ICARIS-2)," OMB Number 200-1996-00599, United States Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Atlanta, Ga, USA, 2001, http://www. cdc. gov/Injury/wisqars/pdf/ICARIS2-PublicUse-DataSet-Documentation. pdf.
15. K. B. Spangenberg, M. T. Wagner, S. Hendrix, and D. L. Bachman, "Firearm presence in households of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias," Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 1183-1186, 1999.
16. R. H. DuRant, S. Barkin, J. A. Craig,V. A. Weiley, E. H. Ip, andR. C. Wasserman, "Firearmownership and storage patterns among families with children who receive well-child care in pediatric offices," Pediatrics, vol. 119, no. 6, pp. e1271-e1279, 2007,Erratum in: Pediatrics, vol. 120, no. 2, p. 460, 2007.
17. T. Coyne-Beasley, C. W. Runyan, L. Baccaglini,D. Perkis, and R. M. Johnson, "Storage of poisonous substances and firearms in homes with young children visitors and older adults," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 109-115, 2005.
18. T. L. Albright and S. K. Burge, "Improving firearm storage habits: impact of brief office counseling by family physicians," Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 40-46, 2003.
19. M. H. Rathore, "Physician 'gag laws' and gun safety," Virtual Mentor, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 284-288, 2014.
20. Center for Disease Control, "Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)," October 2014, http://www . cdc. gov/injury/wisqars/index. html.
21. G. J. Wintemute, C. A. Parham, J. J. Beaumont, M. Wright, and C. Drake, "Mortality among recent purchasers of handguns," The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 341, no. 21, pp. 1583-1589, 1999.
22. J. J. Mann, A. Apter, J. Bertolote et al., "Suicide prevention strategies: A systematic review," The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 294, no. 16, pp. 2064-2074, 2005.
23. National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action, 2012, http://www. surgeongeneral. gov/library/reports/national-strategy-suicide-prevention/full-report. pdf.