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camelot
Barsoom
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 Posted - 19/09/2007 : 01:16:59
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I suspect it is similar in the UK. But here in the US we have the added pressures on the elderly of high priced health care, failing pension plans, and reduced transportation opportunities. (drive a car or die, if you will). Still not an issue for my parents but it could be soon...
"The elderly are the highest risk population in the country for suicide. But few suicide-prevention programs target them — a result, advocates say, of scarce funding and lack of concern for older Americans."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_he_me/elderly_suicide
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NAZZ
Barsoom
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Posted - 19/09/2007 : 01:40:05
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| Do not hear much about oap suicides,they are more likely to die of hypothrmia as they are worried about the cost of gas,electric. |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 19/09/2007 : 22:51:37
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| Many elderly folks `give up`, neglected by their families/community and spiralling into self-neglect, they go into steady decline (and too many end up hospitalised for their last few months of life) under strained circumstances as Nazz says, but that`s not quite the same as suicide. Even some frail old folks in the most desperate `social problem` category cling to life and sanity rather than showing suicidal tendencies. |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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Experts: Elderly most at-risk in suicide