A diagnosis of dementia more than doubles the risk of suicide in the first three months after a patient is told the news, a recent study has found.
A diagnosis of dementia more than doubles the risk of suicide in the first three months after a patient is told the news, according to the latest research.
"A dementia diagnosis can be devastating, but the immediate period after diagnosis is often the period of greatest distress," said lead study author Dr. Charles Marshall, clinical senior lecturer and honourary consultant neurologist at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London.
Most cases of dementia are in the elderly, but chronic conditions and behavioural choices can play a role, according to Kallmyer. "Obesity, diabetes and sedentary lifestyles in younger people are rising quickly, and these are risk factors for dementia," she said., the actual number of people — 95 patients — who died by suicide after finding out they had dementia was small.
Results from studies like these suggest that physicians should conduct a "robust risk assessment" for signs of suicide at the time of diagnosis, Marshall and his coauthors wrote in the latest study.
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