Year: 2004 Source: Psychiatric Times, v.XXI, no.3, (March 2004), 10p. SIEC No: 20050425

This paper focuses on potential cognitive vulnerability factors for suicide ideation among older adults, given theory & research, linking thoughts of suicide in late life with decreased cognitive functioning, global & social forms of hopelessness, & an impaired recognition of meaning or purpose in life. (66 refs)