.... Key words suicide old age self-harm depression attempted suicide suicidal ideation This article will consider the spectrum of suicidal behaviour in later life. The first section concerns completed suicide, the second self-harm, and the third suicidal ideation (tiredness of life, death wishes...

...Christina Victor; Sasha Scambler; John Bond; Ann Bowling Loneliness is consistently presumed to be a specific ‘social problem’, which accompanies old age and growing older. Ninety per cent of the general population of Britain feel that loneliness is particularly a problem associated with old age...