Too many Australians living in nursing homes take their own lives
- Written by Briony Murphy, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology & Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Around 140 Australian nursing-home residents took their own lives between 2000 and 2013, our new study shows. Published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the study is the first to examine the number and patterns of suicide in Australia’s...
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