@article{ref1,
title="Do old persons wish to die? Suicidal tendencies and weariness of life in old age. Results of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)",
journal="Fortschritte der Medizin Originalien",
year="2001",
author="Barnow, S. and Linden, M.",
volume="119",
number="1",
pages="33-36",
abstract="On the basis of the results of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE), some 15% of persons aged 70 years and older confess to being tired of life, 5% express a wish to die, and 0.5-1% entertain thoughts of suicide. Women express a wish to die or have thoughts of suicide approximately 1.5 to 3 times more frequently than men. Depending on the severity of the suicidal tendency, more than 80% of such patients, and all of these entertaining thoughts of suicide, suffer from acute psychiatric disorders. Death wishes and thoughts of suicide must therefore always prompt an intensive psychiatric diagnostic work-up, and initiation of suitable and rigorous treatment, and must not be mistaken for the expression of understandable attitudes towards aging.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}