Preference for Fall from Height As a Method of Suicide by Elderly Residents of New York City

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2005 May 26

PMID 15914824

Citations 9

Authors

Robert C Abrams

Peter M Marzuk

Kenneth Tardiff

Andrew C Leon

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Abstract

We studied all medical examiner-certified suicides in New York City from 1990 to 1998 to compare suicide methods used by elderly and younger adults. Associations between age and suicide method and place of occurrence were examined. Fall from height was more likely to have been used by individuals 65 or older than by those who were younger. Among persons who died by fall from height, those 65 or older were more likely than others to have fallen from buildings where they lived.

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