A psychiatric–mental health nurse has been careful to appropriately assess an older adult client for suicide risk. Which of the following statements regarding suicide in older adults is accurate?
A) Suicide attempts are more successful among younger individuals compared to older individuals.
B) Older individuals are more likely to choose a lethal method of suicide.
C) Older individuals are more likely to recover from a suicide attempt than are younger individuals.
D) In older adults, suicide is more common in females than in males.
Ans: B
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Although currently older people account for less than 13% of the national population, the ratios of attempts to completed suicides are 150:1 in the young but 4:1 in older adults. Older people use methods that are more likely to be lethal, have a greater motivation to die, have poorer recuperative powers, are more socially isolated, and have more chronic conditions and disability. The risk of suicide accrues with age and is gender related. The highest rate of suicide is in white men 85 years or older.
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