Navigating Life Transitions as a Strategy for Preventing Late-Life Suicide - No. S2 - Symposium Session

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Mary Man

Older adults experience higher suicide rates than the general population, and aging-related life transitions and changes in health and functioning may elevate this risk. This symposium presents research on identifying suicide risk factors and prevention approaches, emphasizing how functional impairment and health changes shape risk. It covers strategies for compensating functional decline that may influence suicidal ideation among highly autonomy-valuing individuals, outcomes from a clinical trial targeting social connection barriers, and the use of large language models to map life-transition structures among late-life suicide decedents.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryHealthcare

FormatPDF

Pages1

Reading Time3 min

AccessFree to download

Symposium 3100 (Session 3100)

Suicide risk in older adults and life transitions

Functional impairment, autonomy, and suicidal ideation

Clinical trial targeting social connection barriers

Large language models and life-transition structure identification

FAQs

Why are life transitions important for preventing late-life suicide?

Older adults face higher suicide rates, and transitions tied to aging and changes in functioning and health may contribute to increased suicide risk.

What intervention is described to reduce suicidal ideation?

A clinical trial tests whether an intervention addressing barriers to social connection—arising from functional impairment and health problems—reduces suicidal ideation measured via ecological momentary assessment.

How do large language models contribute to understanding late-life suicide?

Research uses large language models to identify and characterize the structure of life transitions for late-life suicide decedents using the National Violent Death Reporting System.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Mary Man