NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Kimberly Van Orden of the University of Rochester Medical Center about persistently high suicide rates among elderly men. Preliminary data just came out showing that in ...

Experts urge a national prevention strategy tailored to aging men, countering stigma and isolation After years of intensifying concern over youth mental health — including a 2021 warning from the U.S.

It was a Friday morning and George McCune had roused himself to make the 2.4-mile trip from his Northridge home to the Veterans Affairs campus in North Hills. The 77-year-old was greeted there that ...

In 2021, adults older than 65 years showed higher rates of suicide mortality than individuals of all age groups combined, with men being more affected than women. Although hanging was the most common ...

Preliminary data just came out showing that in 2022, the number of suicides in the U.S. rose by 3%. We're now going to look at one piece of that report, suicide rates among men 75 and older. They ...