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Suicide Risk in Later Life

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Isolation, untreated trauma, and unaddressed depression elevate suicide risk among older adults, a pattern linked to gaps in later-life mental healthcare, not to age.

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Veterans who never received treatment for wartime trauma carry elevated risk decades later, a structural gap rather than an inevitable outcome of aging.

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This entry names risk factors for recognition only; anyone in crisis should contact 988 immediately.

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