| Description |
xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Epidemiology of suicide -- Suicide and aging I : patterns of psychiatric diagnosis -- Suicide and aging II : the psychobiological interface -- Openness to experience and completed suicide across the second half of life -- Suicide, life course, and life story -- Six elderly suicides in a 1-year period in a rural midwestern community -- Reflections on cultural influences on aging and old-age suicide in Germany -- Suicide and aging in Japan : an examination of treated |
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elderly suicide attempters -- Suicide in later life in Japan : urban and rural differences -- Suicide in the elderly : the United Kingdom perspective -- Mental disorders in elderly suicide -- Recent life events in elderly suicide : a nationwide study in Finland -- Recent changes in suicide rates in selected Eastern European and other European countries -- Ethnicity and elderly suicide in Singapore -- Suicide in the multiethnic elderly population of Australia, 1979-1990 |
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-- From a cultural stance : suicide and aging in a changing world -- Future directions for research on late-life suicide. |
| Subject |
Older people.
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Older people.
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| Added Author |
Pearson, Jane L.
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Conwell, Yeates.
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| ISBN |
0826193706 |
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