It’s easy enough to see why the focus of health authorities and the media is often on young people when it comes to mental health. But “if the plight of young people is disturbing (…), the fact remains that most of the deaths due to suicide concern adults over 40, mostly men, not forgetting that the highest rates of suicide are recorded among the elderly.P. remembersr: French Public Health Scientific Director Laetitia Huyart in an editorial published on February 3, 2023 in the Public Health Bulletin on Suicidal Behavior. The latest comprehensive data shows that of the 8,366 suicide deaths surveyed in France in 2017, almost a third were over the age of 65.
When he talks about the suicide of the elderly, psychologist Vincent Lapierre, director of the Paris Center for the Prevention of Suicides (CPS Paris), is not even surprised when some people do not hesitate to throw…
Source: Le Figaro
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