@article{ref1,
title="COVID-19 and the risk of homicide-suicide among older adults: identify patients who are at risk, and implement measures to protect them",
journal="Current psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Ghossoub, Elias and Wakim, Mary-Lee T. and Khoury, Rita",
volume="20",
number="2",
pages="14-18",
abstract="On March 25, 2020, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, a 71-year-old man stabbed his 71-year-old wife before suffocating himself to death. The couple was reportedly anxious about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic lockdown measures and were on the verge of running out of food and medicine. (1)  One week later, in Chicago, Illinois, a 54-year-old man shot and killed his female partner, age 54, before killing himself. The couple was tested for COVID-19 2 days earlier and the man believed they had contracted the virus; however, the test results for both of them had come back negative. (2)  Intimate partner homicide-suicide is the most dramatic domestic abuse outcome. (3) Homicide-suicide is defined as &quot;homicide committed by a person who subsequently commits suicide within one week of the homicide. In most cases the subsequent suicide occurs within a 24-hour period.&quot; (4) Approximately one-quarter of all homicide-suicides are committed by persons age [greater than or equal to]55 years. (5-6) We believe that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of homicide-suicide among older adults may be increased due to several factors, including...   To better characterize the perpetrators of older adult homicide-suicide, we conducted a literature search of relevant terms. We identified 9 original research publications that examined homicide-suicide in older adults...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1537-8276",
doi="10.12788/cp.0090",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.12788/cp.0090"
}