Suicide and Aging
Subtitle: International Perspectives
Contributors: Jane L. Pearson (Editor); Yeates Conwell (Editor)
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: August 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780826193704
Subjects: Elderly; Psychotherapy; Suicidal Behavior; Social Gerontology; Psychology; Sociology; Suicide; Gerontology; Older people
Description: 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.