Suicide Attempts among the Elderly in East Asia

Guk-Hee Suh; Lina Gega

doi:10.1017/S1041610217000333

Suicide Attempts among the Elderly in East Asia

Guk-Hee Suh, Lina Gega

The Hull York Medical School

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Abstract

Among the one million suicide deaths worldwide each year, as many as 60% occur in Asia. The World Health Organization (WHO) found higher suicide rates among the elderly in rapidly industrialized Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, compared to the corresponding rates of recently industrializing Asian countries like Vietnam and Sri Lanka (WHO, 2014). As a case in point, suicide rates in South Korea have been the highest in the world since 2003 and are rising especially among older people (Hong & Knapp, 2014). Suicide attempts and older age are strong predictors of completed suicide (Simon et al., 2013; Szanto et al., 2002) and, as such, are important in guiding our efforts for suicide prevention; however, most epidemiological studies focus on completed suicides across all ages rather than understanding the reasons behind suicide attempts in older populations

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	707-708
Number of pages	2
Journal	International Psychogeriatrics
Volume	29
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610217000333
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2017

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