Person-centered prevention of suicide among older adults

Résumé

This chapter reviews the clinical risk factors for suicide in older adult's and offers a person-centered approach to prevention, one that focuses less on biomedical concepts such as "disease" and more on decision-making concepts related to personologic and motivational processes, such as risk detection, treatment seeking, and treatment adherence. Person-centered approaches to primary prevention are theorized to succeed when they are perceived as posing little threat to self-determination. Person-centlered approaches to secondary prevention are theorized to succeed when they are perceived as enhancing the autonomous decision making of at-risk individuals, their family members, and the individual(s) from whom help is sought. A person-centered framework could advance suicidology and complement rapidly developing research in basic and applied decision making. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved) AÎNÉ PRÉVENTION FACTEUR-SOCIODÉMOGRAPHIQUE FACTEUR-RISQUE DÉPRESSION PRISE-DÉCISION SANTÉ-PUBLIQUE ÉTAT-CIVIL MALADIE-PHYSIQUE PERSONNALITÉ DÉTRESSE-PSYCHOLOGIQUE