two fields of study also share greatly expanding research and published works. Professional journals and books in any of the following areas contain written materials on elderly suicide: medicine and health, psychology, sociology, social work, philosophy, psychiatry, anthropology. Gaining accesss to, being aware of, and staying current in the literature from so many disciplines is difficult. The present book includes references from these content areas to provide the reader with the diverse background that encompasses our knowledge and thoughts of elderly suicide.The only annotated bibliography previously existing on suicide in the elderly was by Marv Miller. He provides, in his book cited above and in the journal Death Education in 1979 (see reference 2-003), brief annotations of 19 empirical articles from 1951 to 1977. The nearly 200 English language empirical and non-empirical works summarized in the present book provide a great expansion of that information. The published works cover the time period from the early 1900s to early 1986, although the majority appeared from around 1970 through the end of 1985. Among the annotated works in Chapters 3 and 4, 82 percent were published since 1970, 62 percent since 1975, 38 percent since 1980, and 9 percent since 1985. The coverage is comprehensive although several sources that only briefly presented a portion of the literature on this topic within coverage of larger concerns (e.g., articles or books on depression in the elderly with a few-paragraph coverage of suicide) have been omitted because they added no information to what was resented here.The references cited within this book are the result of searches by the two authors of book and journal article reference lists, bibliographies, computer searches and personal searches of indexes, abstract sources, and individual journal issue contents over the period of time the two of us researched and wrote on this topic. Listed below are the index and abstract sources that have been consulted in compiling this book:
Abstracts in Anthropology
Abstracts for Social Workers replaced by: Social Work Research and Abstracts
Bulletin of Suicidology
Community Mental Health Review
Current Bibliography of Epidemiology
Current Contents, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Current Literature on Aging
Dissertation Abstracts International
Abstracts on Criminology and Penology replaced by Criminology and Penology Abstracts
International Bibliography of Research in Marriage and the Family
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences--Sociology
International Nursing Index
Marriage and Family Life Review
Nursing and Allied Health Literature Index
Psychological Abstracts
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Publication Information: Book Title: Suicide and the Elderly: An Annotated Bibliography and Review. Contributors: Nancy J. Osgood - compiler, John L. McIntosh - compiler. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1986. Page Number: x.
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