Year: 1986 Source: New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. 193p. SIEC No: 19880325

Osgood & McIntosh provide a very extensive review of literature & research in the many areas of suicide among the elderly. Chapter headings are; review gerontological suicide literature; bibliographic sources on elderly suicide; overview & other non-empirical works; annotations; empirical investigations; annotations; non-English language works. A 23-page demographic appendix, indexes are included. The largest portion of this book is that comprised of annotated references. (NBB)