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Watch for suicide risk factors in elderly patients: depression, social isolation.(Clinical Rounds)
CHICAGO -- Primary care physicians may be the only ones to see the red flags associated with suicide in elderly patients, because most elderly suicide victims never come to the attention of psychiatrists.
Primary care physicians should be highly alert to signs of depression and increasing social isolation among their elderly patients, particularly those who live alone, Dr. George El-Nimr said in a poster session at a meeting of the International Psychogeriatric Association.
"Previous studies have shown that attempted suicide and deliberate self-harm are associated with social isolation, which was also round to be associated with the onset of suicidal ideation," said Dr. El-Nimr of Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington, England. Yet data suggest that more than 80% of" elderly who commit suicide never see a psychiatrist before their death and that only about 15% are under psychiatric care when they commit suicide.
Dr. El-Nimr conducted a retrospective study of 200 suicides of people aged 60 years and older that occurred in Cheshire from 1989 to 2001.
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