Human Growth and Development / Unit 15 HGD 2125 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Suicide in Late Adulthood
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The idea
Men die by suicide far more often than women at every age, and in twenty twenty-three US men aged seventy-five and older had the highest rate, about forty-one per hundred thousand.
In practice
Depression, being unmarried, living alone and the loss of a spouse raising the risk.
Where people slip
Anyone affected can call or text nine eight eight, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Your place on the trail
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