Psychiatric News (2/4) reports, “Many U.S. adults 65 and older who died of suicide between 2003 and 2016 did not have a known mental illness,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from the National Violent Death Reporting System.” The study revealed that “of the 26,884 suicide deaths recorded during the study period,” the majority of “older men (69.1%) and women (50.2%) who died of suicide did not have a known mental illness.” The findings were published online Jan. 28 in a research brief in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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— “Many Older U.S. Adults Who Died By Suicide Did Not Have Known Mental Illness, Study Suggests, Psychiatric News , February 4, 2020