Suicide in the elderly

Abstract

Being the suicide a conduct very old, it's at present a problem with the epidemic characteristics and it's for this question that it has aroused a great interest. But, we have observed that the interest is only about the suicide youngest persons. They are little the factors and tendencies suicides studies in years old persons ("third age"), though also the suicide in years old persons is augmenting. We have analyzed 74 suicides in greater 60 years old persons occurred in our community. We have studied several epidemiological factors: sex, age, civil condition, the suicide mechanism, place where it's occurred, hour, day, month, the pathological antecedents and the other case antecedents.