NIH R01 · 2025
Multimodal assessment of social disconnection as a proximal risk for suicide ideation in late life.
Abstract/Project Summary Globally, and in the United States, older adults exhibit the highest rates of suicide deaths. Research has shown that social disconnection and interpersonal negative life events (NLEs) are both significantly linked with suicide ideation, attempts, and deaths in late life, yet few studies have examined moderators of the relationship between social disconnection and suicide ideation or considered social disconnection as a mediator of the relationship between interpersonal NLEs and suicide ideation in late life, despite compelling evidence to do so. In addition, existing studies are mostly cross-sectional and provide little insight into how suicide risk unfolds over…
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