The rates of suicide increase with age and reach their highest levels in the oldest age groupings and are sufficiently large for them to constitute a public health concern. The number of deaths due to suicides after the age of 60 years in Italy is 1,775 (41.36%) in 2013; there is a constant increase of elder population over the last ten years and elderly are almost twice of young. It is in this context that suicide arises, a risk factor during old age.
Suicide in the elderly: a 37-years retrospective study / Crestani, Carlo; Masotti, Vittoria; Corradi, Natalia; Schirripa, Maria Laura; Cecchi, Rossana. - In: ACTA BIO-MEDICA DE L'ATENEO PARMENSE. - ISSN 0392-4203. - 90:1(2019), pp. 68-76. [10.23750/abm.v90i1.6312]
Suicide in the elderly: a 37-years retrospective study
Cecchi, Rossana
2019
Abstract
The rates of suicide increase with age and reach their highest levels in the oldest age groupings and are sufficiently large for them to constitute a public health concern. The number of deaths due to suicides after the age of 60 years in Italy is 1,775 (41.36%) in 2013; there is a constant increase of elder population over the last ten years and elderly are almost twice of young. It is in this context that suicide arises, a risk factor during old age.
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