Factors determining the balance between the wish to die and the wish to live in older adults

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 685-691

  Bonnewyn, Anke ^a   Shah, Ajit ^b   Bruffaerts, Ronny ^a   Demyttenaere, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discriminant analysis; internal struggle; older; wish to die; wish to live

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY AGING; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY AGING; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 84971432527     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4511     Document Type: Article

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