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Rise In Baby Boomer
Suicides Amid Collapsing Economy
Newsmax Health
September 28, 2010
Suicide rates for middle-aged people are edging up
— particularly for white men without college degrees
— and a combination of poor health and a
poor economy may be driving it, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Middle-aged people usually have a relatively low risk for suicide as
they seek to support their families, but baby boomers are bucking
this trend, sociologists Julie Phillips of Rutgers University in
New Jersey and Ellen Idler of Emory University in Atlanta found.
“If these trends continue, they are cause for concern,”
Phillips and Idler wrote in the journal Public Health Reports.
“Male baby boomers have yet to reach old age, the period
of the male life course at highest risk for suicide; if they
continue to set historically high suicide rates as they did in
adolescence and now in middle age, their rates
in old age could be very high indeed.”
Suicides Amid Collapsing Economy
Newsmax Health
September 28, 2010
Suicide rates for middle-aged people are edging up
— particularly for white men without college degrees
— and a combination of poor health and a
poor economy may be driving it, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Middle-aged people usually have a relatively low risk for suicide as
they seek to support their families, but baby boomers are bucking
this trend, sociologists Julie Phillips of Rutgers University in
New Jersey and Ellen Idler of Emory University in Atlanta found.
“If these trends continue, they are cause for concern,”
Phillips and Idler wrote in the journal Public Health Reports.
“Male baby boomers have yet to reach old age, the period
of the male life course at highest risk for suicide; if they
continue to set historically high suicide rates as they did in
adolescence and now in middle age, their rates
in old age could be very high indeed.”
