Epidemiology of suicidal feelings in an ageing Swedish population: from old to very old age in the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies

Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg, Barbara Vanaelst, Mattias Jonson, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Felicia Ahlner, Hanna Wetterberg, Lina Rydén, Silke Kern, Robert Sigström, Anna Zettergren,

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences · 2019 · 34 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

Suicidal feelings in late-life are uncommon in individuals without depression indicating that such behaviour is not a widespread, normative phenomenon. However, such feelings may occur outside the context of depression.

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