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Preventing unnecessary deaths among older adults
— a call to action for social workers | | Author(s) | Ellen L Csikai, Ameda A Manetta |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 38, no 3, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 85-98 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Depression ; Evaluation ; At risk ; Death ; Preventative medicine ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In his 1999 report on mental health, the US Surgeon General identified suicide as a national public health problem, and recognised that mind and body are inseparable. Poor mental health and medical conditions can lead to expressions of a desire to die, suicide, or requests for physician-assisted suicide. This paper examines depression in older people and the risks for suicide, suicide prevention, and physician-assisted suicide (including the experience of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act 1994). The appropriate role for social workers in preventing unnecessary deaths is discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030425206 A |
| Classmark | EV: ENR: 4C: CA3: CW: LK2: 7T |
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