Highest suicide rates among older men in the U.S.

Highest suicide rates among older men in the U.S.

For STAT, Olivia Goldhill reports on an often overlooked demographic. Meanwhile, another demographic has gone largely overlooked. The people most at risk from suicide aren’t those in crisis in adolescence or midlife, but men age 75 and older. Some 38.2 deaths per 100,000 among men age 75 to 84 are by suicide, which increases to 55.7 among those over 85, according to data from CDC — more than 16 times the suicide rate for women in the same age gr…