Asia and COVID-19; The need to continue mental health care to prevent the spread of suicide in the elderly

• There is serious concern about the probable increase in the prevalence of suicide due to the global pandemic of COVID-19 in the elderly in Asia. • Mental health care programs should be of higher quality at the same time as trying to control the existing pandemic.

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Autores principales: Badrfam, Rahim, Zandifar, Atefeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33271731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102452
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spelling pubmed-75544652020-10-14 Asia and COVID-19; The need to continue mental health care to prevent the spread of suicide in the elderly Badrfam, Rahim Zandifar, Atefeh Asian J Psychiatr Letter to the Editor • There is serious concern about the probable increase in the prevalence of suicide due to the global pandemic of COVID-19 in the elderly in Asia. • Mental health care programs should be of higher quality at the same time as trying to control the existing pandemic. Elsevier B.V. 2020-12 2020-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7554465/ /pubmed/33271731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102452 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554465/
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