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xvi, 235 pages : 26 cm This book addresses the need for more knowledge about the relationship between older age and suicide. Based on a special issue of International Psychogeriatrics, the volume explores the risk factors and clinical profiles of late-life suicide in the hope of gaining a better understanding of this phenomenon. Renowned international researchers examine how the aging process, cultural factors, cohort effects, personality, medical disorders, and the concept of an individual's life course trajectory may contribute to suicide. This book is of interest to professionals, educators, and graduate students in the social and health sciences, including psychology, psychiatry, gerontology, geriatrics, nursing, and sociology Includes bibliographical references and index 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 -

Author

Jane L. Pearson, Yeates Conwell, editors

Publisher

Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826193704

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Psychology