Suicide Prevention for Older Adults in Residential Communities: Implications for Policy and Practice

1. Administration on Aging 2007 A profile of older Americans: 2007. Available: http://www.aoa.gov/AoAroot/Aging_Statistics/Profile/2007/docs/2007profile.pdf. Accessed 4 September 2009

2. HaysJC

2002 Living arrangements and health: A review of recent literature. Public Health Nurs 19 136 151

3. ConwellY

2001 Suicide in later life: A review and recommendations for prevention. Suicide Life Threat Behav 31 Suppl 32 47

4. KroutJA

MoenP

2003 Residential choices and experiences of older adults: Pathways to life quality Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Springer Publishing Company

5. AARP 2004 Assisted living: Weighing the options. Available: http://www.aarp.org/families/housing_choices/assisted_living/a2004-02-26-weighingoptions.html/. Accessed 4 September 2009

6. Assisted Living Federation of America 2009 Available: http://www.alfa.org. Accessed 4 September 2009

7. U.S. Census Bureau 2005 Statistical abstract of the United States: 2000. Available: http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/pop.pdf. Accessed 4 September 2009

8. ChenitzWC

1983 Entry into a nursing home as status passage: A theory to guide nursing practice. Geriatr Nurs 4 92 97

9. MorseDL

2000 Relocation stress syndrome is real. Am J Nurs 100 24 30

10. KaoHF

TravisSS

ActonGJ

2004 Relocation to a long-term care facility: Working with patients and families before, during, and after. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 42 10 16

11. MallickMJ

WhippleTW

2000 Validity of the nursing diagnosis of relocation stress syndrome. Nurs Res 49 97 100

12. MikhailML

1992 Psychological responses to relocation to a nursing home. J Gerontol Nurs 18 35 39

13. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009 Web-based injury statistics query and reporting system (WISQARS). Available: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html Accessed 4 September 2009

14. ConwellY

RotenbergM

CaineED

1990 Completed suicide at age 50 and over. J Am Geriatr Soc 38 640 644

15. ConwellY

DubersteinPR

CoxC

1998 Age differences in behaviors leading to completed suicide. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6 122 126

16. ConwellY

ThompsonC

2008 Suicidal behavior in elders. Psychiatr Clin North Am 31 333 356

17. JuurlinkDN

HerrmannN

SzalaiJP

2004 Medical illness and the risk of suicide in the elderly. Arch Intern Med 164 1179 1184

18. RossRK

BernsteinL

TrentL

HendersonBE

Paganini-HillA

1990 A prospective study of risk factors for traumatic deaths in a retirement community. Prev Med 19 323 334

19. SuominenK

HenrikssonM

IsometsaE

ConwellY

HeilaH

2003 Nursing home suicides: A psychological autopsy study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 18 1095 1101

20. ScoccoP

RapattoniM

FantoniG

GaluppoM

De BiasiF

2006 Suicidal behaviour in nursing homes: A survey in a region of north-east Italy. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21 307 311

21. MezukB

PrescottMR

TardiffK

VlahovD

GaleaS

2008 Suicide in older adults in long-term care: 1990–2005. J Am Geriatr Soc 56 2107 2111

22. OsgoodNJ

BrantBA

1990 Suicidal behavior in long-term care facilities. Suicide Life Threat Behav 20 113 122

23. DraperB

BrodatyH

LowLF

RichardsV

2003 Prediction of mortality in nursing home residents: Impact of passive self-harm behaviors. Int Psychogeriatr 15 187 196

24. AdamsKB

SandersS

AuthEA

2004 Loneliness and depression in independent living retirement communities: Risk and resilience factors. Aging Ment Health 8 475 485

25. JangY

BergmanE

SchonfeldL

MolinariV

2006 Depressive symptoms among older residents in assisted living facilities. Int J Aging Hum Dev 63 299 315

26. KaupBA

LoreckD

Gruber-BaldiniAL

GermanP

MenonAS

2007 Depression and its relationship to funciton and medical status, by dementia status, in nursing home admissions. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15 438 442

27. TeresiJ

AbramsJR

HolmesD

RamirezM

EimickeJ

2001 Prevalence of depression and depression recognition in nursing homes. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 36 613 620

28. CaineED

ConwellY

2001 Suicide in the elderly. Int Clin Psychopharmacol 16 Suppl 2 S25 30

29. Center for Mental Health Services 2009 Report on the 2008 Summit on Opportunities for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention in Senior Living Communities Rockville, MD Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services http://www.sprc.org/library

30. WillisSL

1996 Adult development and ageing New York (New York) HarperCollins College Publishers

31. BowlingA

2005 Ageing well: quality of life in old age Maidenhead (UK) Open University Press