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[Suicide in the Elderly]
Juliana María Velásquez Suarez1
1Psiquiatra de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Fellow de Psiquiatría de Enlace de la Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Psiquiatría, de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Introduction:
Suicide is a public health problem worldwide, with multiple features and risk factors. It has some common and unique trends in each phase across the lifespan.
Objective:
To review the medical literature related to suicide in the elderly, in order to determine the current status of this problem in the world, and especially in Colombia.
Method:
Literature review.
Results:
There is a high volume of articles about suicide in general, even in Colombia, with many papers describing the problem in a comprehensive manner, but there is a need for more studies and publications on the scope of this problem in the elderly.