Suicide and Aging

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.