{"id":15279,"date":"2025-03-10T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:04:48","slug":"mces-provides-older-adult-suicide-data-for-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/mces-provides-older-adult-suicide-data-for-montgomery-county\/","title":{"rendered":"MCES Provides Older Adult Suicide Data for Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-color-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8bc0e7adb0024a322f12ee36d09b5d27\" style=\"font-size:15px\">MCES frequently received inquiries regarding the incidence of suicide in our service area. Here is what we provided in response to a request regarding county residents aged 65 years and older for the years 2019 to 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OlderAdultSuicideData-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15281\" style=\"width:316px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There were an average of 22 older adult suicide per year in the county during the 5-year period. On average on a yearly basis one-half of these suicides involved older adults aged 75 years and over.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just over 81% of all older adult suicides in the period involved older men.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Over 87% of the suicides of older adults aged 75 years and over in the county involved men. Suicides by older women decreased with age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Firearms were the lethal means in 58% of all older adult suicides in the county in the period.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Over 71% of the suicides of older adults aged 75 years and over in the county involved firearms; over 79% of the suicides of older adults aged 80 and over involved firearms. Guns as lethal means increased with age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-color-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4eb1da8ebaad552a3f097d3dd02f454d\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The statistics used are available from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCES frequently received inquiries regarding the incidence of suicide in our service area. 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