Suicide Among Older Adults Living in or Transitioning to Residential Long-term Care, 2003 to 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Almost 25% of Medicare beneficiaries live in residential long-term care (LTC) (eg, independent or assisted living facility or nursing home). There are few reliable statistics on completed suicide in LTC, in part because of data limitations.

Objectives

To estimate the number of suicides associated with residential LTC (ie, among persons in a facility, transitioning into or out of a facility, or otherwise associated with LTC) among adults 55 and older and, secondarily, to identify whether machine learning tools could improve the quality of suicide surveillance data.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional epidemiologic study (conducted in 2018) of restricted-access data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (2003-2015) using restr

SUBMITTER: Mezuk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6575144 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature