Suicide Among the Elderly in Italy: An Epidemiological Focus in the Light of International TrendsAbstract: Suicide rates of the elderly in Italy have remained high but stable over preceding decades. A steady increase has been observed among elderly ...
Care of the Suicidal Elderly in SwitzerlandAbstract: Although the living conditions of the elderly in Switzerland seem to be favourable, they do not prevent them from having a high rate of suicide. There is observed a progressive increase between in the ...
Abstract: In 1996 the “Erzbistum Bamberg”, the “Bistum Eichstätt” and the catholic “Bildungswerk” of the “Diözese Linz” in Austria started to train SimA coaches based on the original SimA training materials. Since then some thousand senior citizens ...
What Protects Against Dementia?Abstract: Regarding the increasing number of people with dementia in the next decades and the limited possibilities in the treatment of this disease, prevention of dementia will get an increasing importance for the medicine ...