Citation

Barry LC. Am. J. Geriatr. Psychiatry 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

UCONN Health, UConn Center on Aging (LCB), Farmington, CT. Electronic address: LiBarry@uchc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jagp.2019.08.003

PMID

31477456

Abstract

Among older adults, thoughts about death can be normative and innocuous reactions to aging-related stressors. Conversely, thinking about death and/or wishing for one's death in later life may be a marker of increased suicide risk.1–3 Frequently referred to as “passive” suicidal ideation (SI), these types of thoughts are prevalent among older persons with depression or clinically significant depressive symptoms. However, growing evidence points toward a subgroup of individuals who endorse passive SI in later life outside the context of clinical depression.

Language: en