title: Suicide and the elderly.
abstract: Impending demographic changes mean that the proportion of the elderly in the population will increase. Suicide rates increase with age. The literature on elderly suicide, with emphasis on methodology, cross-national rates and trends, correlates, cultural factors, location and method, attempted suicides and prevention, is critically reviewed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry of Old Age.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De
keywords: attempted suicides; depression; elderly; parasuicides; suicides