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Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states

Older people are confronted with a myriad of challenges throughout the course of their lives in the present society. One of these is the issue of suicidal behaviour among people of older age. This article understands the nature and examines the cause of mortality due to suicide among older people in...

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Autor principal: Patel, Avanish Bhai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971080
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description Older people are confronted with a myriad of challenges throughout the course of their lives in the present society. One of these is the issue of suicidal behaviour among people of older age. This article understands the nature and examines the cause of mortality due to suicide among older people in later life. The author has applied the document analysis method. The information for the current research has been collected using the news content of various Indian newspapers, magazines, and news portals. The researcher was collated 60 occurrences of old-age suicide from the newspapers of Northern Indian states from March 2022 to June 2022. The study has indicated that there is a substantial rise in old-age suicide due to the vulnerable condition of older people in late life. Moreover, the vulnerable condition of older people has led to various factors instrumental in old-age suicide, such as abuse in the family, chronic diseases, depression, poverty, and social rejection that give rise to feelings of committing suicide among the older people.
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spelling pubmed-95216382022-09-30 Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states Patel, Avanish Bhai Front Psychol Psychology Older people are confronted with a myriad of challenges throughout the course of their lives in the present society. One of these is the issue of suicidal behaviour among people of older age. This article understands the nature and examines the cause of mortality due to suicide among older people in later life. The author has applied the document analysis method. The information for the current research has been collected using the news content of various Indian newspapers, magazines, and news portals. The researcher was collated 60 occurrences of old-age suicide from the newspapers of Northern Indian states from March 2022 to June 2022. The study has indicated that there is a substantial rise in old-age suicide due to the vulnerable condition of older people in late life. Moreover, the vulnerable condition of older people has led to various factors instrumental in old-age suicide, such as abuse in the family, chronic diseases, depression, poverty, and social rejection that give rise to feelings of committing suicide among the older people. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9521638/ /pubmed/36186369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971080 Text en Copyright © 2022 Patel. 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.
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title Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states
title_full Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states
title_fullStr Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states
title_full_unstemmed Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states
title_short Vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in Northern Indian states
title_sort vulnerability as determinant of suicide among older people in northern indian states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186369
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