Citation

Lapierre V. Gerontologie et Societe 2007; 121(2): 265-278.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007)

DOI

10.3917/gs.121.0265

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

"Centre Popincourt" is dedicated to suicide prevention, and provides mental health care with both individual and group therapies. Though the centre is known for its particular aim, very few elder people consult, while after 65 years of age, the risk of suicide is 3 times higher than at 20. The change of scenery we experienced, moving to a brand new and wheel-chair friendly facility had us wondering what we should do to address this public health concern. Questions around the possibility of tying new links to people after experiencing too much disruption focused our attention. Our proposition would be a group in which people over 65 could come each week, and find a place to recover an ability to communicate, talk about them and be heard, to hear about others, and tie new links.

Language: fr