Management
The prevention of suicide in the elderly depends on the identification and treatment of:
- mental disease:
- SSRIs are effective and less toxic in overdose
- close primary care supervision with weekly prescriptions may help prevent accumulation of tablets and subsequent overdose
- physical disease
- correcting social problems
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