Suicidal feelings in the twilight of life: a cross-sectional population-based study of 97-year-olds.

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Published in BMJ Open on February 01, 2013

Authors

Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg1, Svante Ostling, Anne Börjesson-Hanson, Ingmar Skoog, Margda Wærn

Author Affiliations

1: Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit, Section for Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.

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