Social Processes in Late-Life Suicide
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Late-life suicide.
Suicide rates for older people are increasing worldwide, thereby creating a major public health concern. There has been an absence of public policy and research interest in this area, although the needs are pressing and promise to be even more so. Besides the fact that a worldwide aging population means more older people, and thus more late-life suicides, the percentage of older people who kill...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Innovation in Aging
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2399-5300
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2114