Illness, frailty tip older men over suicide brink
27th September 2016
By Rada Rouse
AGEING men who have multiple medical morbidities are more likely than those with mood disorders to die by suicide, an Australian population-based study shows.

The link between physical frailty and suicide is so strong, the researchers say addressing it is probably a more important intervention to cut the suicide rate than treating depression.
Psychiatrists and vascular specialists led by the University of Western Australia followed a cohort of 38,000 community-dwelling men in Perth, aged 65 to 85, for up to 16 years (median 12.7 years).
During the follow-up, 443