Suicide: recognising the signs and symptomsRebecca Neno reports on the need for collaboration among health professionals in identifying risk factors for suicide in older people

Abstract

Each year around 1 million people across the world take their own lives including about 5,000 in the UK. Many of these people are over 65 years of age. Older people are the age group more likely to be successful at suicide with one in four attempts resulting in death.