Depot risperidone in elderly patients: the experience of an Australian aged psychiatry service.

this. First, the well-known methodological difficulties in cross-national studies of elderly suicides (Shah et al., 2007) may be important. Second, life-long adversity has components other than economic adversity and includes education, housing, employment, status in society and access to healthcare and social welfare. These variables were not measured in this study. Third, measures of economic adversity were only available for a relatively recent period and it is possible that exposure to economic adversity early in life may be more important. Finally, the findings may be genuine.