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Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults
More than 600 million people are aged 60 years and over are living in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that this number will double by 2025 to 2 billion older people. Suicide among people over the age of 60 is one of the most acute problems. The factors strongly associated with sui...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.695286 |
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author | Kułak-Bejda, Agnieszka Bejda, Grzegorz Waszkiewicz, Napoleon |
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description | More than 600 million people are aged 60 years and over are living in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that this number will double by 2025 to 2 billion older people. Suicide among people over the age of 60 is one of the most acute problems. The factors strongly associated with suicide are mentioned: physical illnesses, such as cancer, neurologic disorder, pain, liver disease, genital disorders, or rheumatoid disorders. Moreover, neurologic conditions, especially stroke, may affect decision-making processes, cognitive capacity, and language deficit. In addition to dementia, the most common mental disorders are mood and anxiety disorders. A common symptom of these disorders in the elderly is cognitive impairment. This study aimed to present the relationship between cognitive impairment due to dementia, mood disorders and anxiety, and an increased risk of suicide among older people. Dementia is a disease where the risk of suicide is significant. Many studies demonstrated that older adults with dementia had an increased risk of suicide death than those without dementia. Similar conclusions apply to prodromal dementia Depression is also a disease with a high risk of suicide. Many researchers found that a higher level of depression was associated with suicide attempts and suicide ideation. Bipolar disorder is the second entity in mood disorders with an increased risk of suicide among the elderly. Apart from suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder is characterized by high mortality. In the group of anxiety disorders, the most significant risk of suicide occurs when depression is present. In turn, suicide thoughts are more common in social phobia than in other anxiety disorders. Suicide among the elderly is a serious public health problem. There is a positive correlation between mental disorders such as dementia, depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety and the prevalence of suicide in the elderly. Therefore, the elderly should be comprehensively provided with psychiatric and psychological support. |
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spelling | pubmed-84239102021-09-09 Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults Kułak-Bejda, Agnieszka Bejda, Grzegorz Waszkiewicz, Napoleon Front Psychiatry Psychiatry More than 600 million people are aged 60 years and over are living in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that this number will double by 2025 to 2 billion older people. Suicide among people over the age of 60 is one of the most acute problems. The factors strongly associated with suicide are mentioned: physical illnesses, such as cancer, neurologic disorder, pain, liver disease, genital disorders, or rheumatoid disorders. Moreover, neurologic conditions, especially stroke, may affect decision-making processes, cognitive capacity, and language deficit. In addition to dementia, the most common mental disorders are mood and anxiety disorders. A common symptom of these disorders in the elderly is cognitive impairment. This study aimed to present the relationship between cognitive impairment due to dementia, mood disorders and anxiety, and an increased risk of suicide among older people. Dementia is a disease where the risk of suicide is significant. Many studies demonstrated that older adults with dementia had an increased risk of suicide death than those without dementia. Similar conclusions apply to prodromal dementia Depression is also a disease with a high risk of suicide. Many researchers found that a higher level of depression was associated with suicide attempts and suicide ideation. Bipolar disorder is the second entity in mood disorders with an increased risk of suicide among the elderly. Apart from suicidal thoughts, bipolar disorder is characterized by high mortality. In the group of anxiety disorders, the most significant risk of suicide occurs when depression is present. In turn, suicide thoughts are more common in social phobia than in other anxiety disorders. Suicide among the elderly is a serious public health problem. There is a positive correlation between mental disorders such as dementia, depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety and the prevalence of suicide in the elderly. Therefore, the elderly should be comprehensively provided with psychiatric and psychological support. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8423910/ /pubmed/34512415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.695286 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kułak-Bejda, Bejda and Waszkiewicz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Kułak-Bejda, Agnieszka Bejda, Grzegorz Waszkiewicz, Napoleon Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title | Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title_full | Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title_short | Mental Disorders, Cognitive Impairment and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults |
title_sort | mental disorders, cognitive impairment and the risk of suicide in older adults |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.695286 |
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