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. Elderly Suicide

Published January 11, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Alex Crosby, a medical epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and author of a new report on suicide and the elderly. After many years of declining rates of suicide among persons 65 and older, the rates have started to increase.

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