What is the relationship between the rates of suicide attempts and completions and the elderly?


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What is the relationship between the rates of suicide attempts and completions and the elderly?


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Please go to this link:  http://www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/news/exclusive_03.shtml  Click on the link and then open the article about the Elderly and Suicide.  You will be able to answer the question from this

Read the website information and address the questions below in your initial post.  (NOTE: Your answers should not include religious perspectives or personal opinions about suicide. Both are interesting fodder for discussion in other courses, but not here.)1.      What is your first reaction to what you find on the site? What subsequent thoughts arise after you deliberate on the matter further? What information from our course textbook support or relate to some of this information?
2.      What is the relationship between the rates of suicide attempts and completions and the elderly?
3.      Is depression in old age inevitable? Why or why not? Support your answer with factual information from the assigned readings.
4.      What three pieces of information from this week’s readings and discussion will you want to carry with you when you leave this course?
Be sure to support the points you make in your posts with source crediting in APA format the course textbook and other objective, scientific sources you use.