{"id":156532,"date":"2016-04-23T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=156532"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:59:50","slug":"recognizing-suicide-risk-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/recognizing-suicide-risk-in-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing suicide risk in older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wt-400 ng-binding\" data-ng-bind=\"details.videoBlurb\">Yeates Conwell, co-director of Rochester&#8217;s\u00a0Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide talks about the &#8220;four D&#8217;s&#8221; that contribute to suicide risk in older adults, and a video produced for t<\/span><span class=\"wt-400 ng-binding\" data-ng-bind=\"details.credit\">he American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and featured today in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that people don&#8217;t recognize is that worldwide men and women, as they get older, are at greater and greater risk for suicide, explains Conwell.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;four D&#8217;s&#8221; that Conwell says can be recognized and addressed in older adults to reduce their risk for suicide are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depression, meaning clinical depression;<\/li>\n<li>Debility, or when chronic illness begins to have an impact on the person&#8217;s ability to do things that are personally meaningful to them;<\/li>\n<li>Disconnectedness, or loss of opportunities for social interactions; and<\/li>\n<li>Deadly means. 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